PICNIC OF THE WORLD
Words: John Forster
Music: Allouette, and Can-Can, by Jacques Offenbach
Album: Mother Earth, by Tom Chapin

All the nations sitting on a blanket
Having a picnic--the picnic of the world!

There's Holland and there's Poland and there's Iceland and there's Thailand
There's England and There's Scotland and America (that's my land)
There's Canada and Panama, there's Sweden and Aruba
Korea, Tanzania, not to mention Greece and Cuba

Mali, Bali, Mexico and Martinique
Hungary, Turkey, India and Mozambique
Haiti, Fiji, Israel and Senegal
Kenya, Ghana, Jordan and Nepal.

All sitting on the same big blanket
With the same big basket
Full of sandwiches and deviled eggs
We're all drinking from the same big Thermos
at the same big picnic it's the picnic of the world.

There's Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaya, and Nigeria
There's Luxembourg and Liechtenstein--let's not forget Liberia
There's Paraguay and Uruguay, there's Russia and there's Syria
Sudan, Japan, Iraq, Iran and what about Algeria?

Finland, Greenland, Switzerland and Vietnam
Denmark, Norway, Swaziland and Surinam
Chili, China, Guatemala, Trinidad
Tonga, Togo, Portugal and Chad

All sitting on the same big blanket
With the same warm soda
As the ants crawl on our sandwiches
We're all swatting at the same mosquitoes
Eating burned up burgers at the picnic of the world.

There's Gambia and Zambia and Laos and Guyana
There's Libya, Namibia, Andorra and Botswana
Then there's Singapore, and Ecuador, El Salvador and Lebanon
Albania, Rumania, there's Burma, and Bhutan

All sitting on the same big blanket
With the same big basket full of problems and annoyances
But all knowing at the deep down heart of it
We're all a part of it
The picnic of the picnic of the picnic of the world!