Chorus: Evacuation, evacuation They say we'll all have time to pack our bags And head for safer ground Evacuation, evacuation We might as well prepare to walk Across Long Island Sound
If you're doing up some cookies and the whistle starts to blow And the kids are at the movies and you've got three feet of snow You can jump into the Volvo and go find your family Then you'll head for the Expressway, where the going's always free
For the honchos up at Lilco have a dilly of a plan If there's trouble out at Shoreham every woman, child or man Can be sure of reaching safety, can come in out of the cold Not one person will have problems if they'll do as they are told
We are living on an island, just in case it slipped their minds When a person wants to leave it, here is what that person finds There are just so many bridges, there are just so many boats So unless you own a chopper, well I hope your tushie floats
Every time it starts to sprinkle and the wind begins to blow First the lights begin to flicker, then the power starts to go As I sit here lighting candles I see Shoreham by the sea If they run that like they run this then they've seen the last of me
This is from Tom's CD 'Politics'. This is what he explains about the song: "We have a nuclear power plant on Long Island which we've so far blocked from opening. It's a place called Shoreham, and it belongs to the Long Island Lighting Company, known as Lilco, which has assured us residents of Long Island that we need not fear any catastrophe, but if anything should go wrong not to worry because we'll all be evacuated from Long Island in utter safety and in perfect order, apparently. According to them, they had a test, and it worked ... So even though I felt immensely reassured, I still felt called upon to write a little song."