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Thread #81447 Message #3785107
Posted By: keberoxu
13-Apr-16 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: ADD: The Wompom (Flanders and Swann)
Subject: Lyr Add: INTERIM REPORT (Flanders and Swann)
"Hat-Trick," the four-compact-disc set of recordings of Flanders and Swann issued in the past ten years, includes a re-visit of The Wompom. The music is identical; this is just a revised set of lyrics. This version was not taped before an audience in concert; it is a private recording by the duo, and appears on the fourth CD called "Hats Off." The title of this version is:
INTERIM REPORT
copyright, The Estate of Michael Flanders, who is the author
You can do such a lot with the Atom, You can use every part of it too, For work or for pleasure It's a triumph, it's a treasure Oh there's nothing that an Atom cannot do!
We have recently been to Geneva Where we found it was perfectly true At our meetings in Convention Not a speaker failed to mention There is nothing that an Atom cannot do!
Now the power you release from the Atom Can perform any task that you like And the joy of automation When applied throughout the nation Is that everyone can always be on strike.
Hail to thee blithe Atom! Chain reactor Plant! All providing Atom! Universal Aunt!
We should all raise our hats to the Atom Though it's small, it is game, through and through; For ignoring the abuses When it comes to peaceful uses There is nothing that an Atom cannot do! Nothing that an Atom cannot do! Nothing that an Atom cannot do!
Now the breeding of fuel from the Atom Is of utmost importance to man And the interesting fact A- -bout a nuclear reactor Is you finish up with more than you began.
Let us take some Plutonium Atoms, Let us freeze them and then make them hot;
FLANDERS: Now we add some heavy water -- SWANN: What will happen? FLANDERS: Something oughter -- BOTH, to resume: But we none of us are very certain what!
Gaudeamus Atom! Ave Gamma Ray! Vademecum Atom! Atque vale me!
All the poisonous waste from the Atom Can be loaded on barges and chips We can dump it in the ocean, With the minimum commotion Though, perhaps, you'll get Atomic Fission Chips.
You can do such a lot with the Atom, You can use every part of it too, For work or for pleasure, It's a triumph, it's a treasure, Oh, there's nothing that an Atom cannot do!
To the problems of life as we live it The Atom's the key, and it fits! We shall learn how to mutate a Better rabbit or potato -- If we've not already blown the world to bits!
Pro - ton! Neu - tron ! Let your voices ring! Neut - tron! Pro - ton! Evermore we sing!
To record what is what in the Atom Needs a book twice as big as Who's Who; You can shoot it into space or You can use it as a tracer You can shape it, you can square it, You can drape it, you can wear it, You can ice it, you can dice it, You can pare it, you can slice it -- Oh there's nothing that an Atom cannot do! Nothing that an Atom cannot do! Nothing that an Atom cannot do!