So long, Mom (A song for World War III)
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1. So long, Mom, I'm off to
drop the bomb,
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so
don't wake up for me.
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But while you swelter down
there in your shelter,
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you
can watch me on your TV.
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While we're attacking
frontally,
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watch
Brinkally and Huntally,
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describing
contrapuntally
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the
cities we have lost,
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no
need for you to miss a minute
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of
the agonizing holocaust, yeah.
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2. Little Johnny Jones, he was
a U.S. pilot,
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and
no shrinking violet was he,
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he
was mighty proud when World War Three was declared.
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He wasn't scared, no siree,
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and
this is what he said on his way to Armageddon.
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3. So long, Mom, I'm off to
drop the bomb,
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so
don't wake up for me,
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but
though I may roam I'll come back to my home,
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although
it may be a pile of debris.
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Remember, Mommy,
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I'm off to get a commie,
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so send
me a salami,
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and
try to smile somehow,
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I'll look for you when the war
is over - - -
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an
hour and a half from now.
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Tom Lehrer)