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13 Dec 06 - 08:28 PM (#1908964) Subject: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: oldhippie Does anyone have complete lyrics to this? "What will we get from radiation? No neck, two necks, or maybe three. Each one will have his own mutation, Nobody else will look like me." |
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13 Dec 06 - 09:59 PM (#1909008) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca I found mention of that part of the song in this web-site which quotes a 1962 issue of Time Magazine Unfortunately it doesn't give any more of it that you listed or even a songwriter or singer. Might check the libraries to see if any more information is in the actual issue. |
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13 Dec 06 - 10:41 PM (#1909034) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: Charley Noble 1962! That makes the song almost as old as "Talkin' Atom Blues." Charley Noble |
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14 Dec 06 - 06:04 AM (#1909214) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: GUEST,fogie Its not the song you want ,but you might like to check out Les Barkers parody "Everything glows" |
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14 Dec 06 - 06:28 AM (#1909233) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: NH Dave I think the song is called Strontium Ninety, ca late 50's, attributed to Inman and Ira, and there my personal thread runs out. (It is called CRS, for those who can't afford Alzheimer's) I can remember singing it while in college, where it was a pointed reminder that Strontium 90 was one of the many radioactive byproducts of nuclear bombs, especially dangerous as it would happily substitute for/replace the Calcium in your bones, to the danger of both you and your bones. I'm sure it appeared in Sing Out, and might have made it into one of their many reprints, perhaps even Rise up Singing. Dave |
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14 Dec 06 - 10:13 AM (#1909418) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: Charley Noble Here's what the link to Sing Outs! songfinder comes up with: "Ann and Marry Cleary's STRONTIUM 90, our intrepid Editor, Mark Moss, blasted back with the following: "There were two recordings of the song that I know of ... both from the early 1960s: Inman and Ira, Singing Spokesmen from the New Generation, Mercury #20778, LP (196?), cut#A.06; and Johnson Boys, Singin' and Pickin', Bethlehem #4013, LP (1963), cut#A.01 (Strontium Ninety)." Unfortunately no lyrics but I think they are in the Sierra Club Environmental Songbook that is buried somewhere in my livingroom; I might be able to access that book after the spring thaw! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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15 Dec 06 - 12:51 AM (#1909982) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca That would be awesome, Charley! |
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15 Dec 06 - 07:42 AM (#1910141) Subject: Lyr Add: EARTH CHILD (Malvina Reynolds) From: oldhippie I found this related song, while searching for lyrics. Earth Child Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1977 Schroder Music Company, renewed 2005. Of all the children in the world, Itself the world is my special care, It's being raped by an engineer, And a billionaire, And I'm standing there. Strontium ninety in the rivers, PCB on the land And the children of the people Cannot stand. Strontium ninety in the rivers And the fish all die, And the birds that eat them Cannot fly. Strontium ninety in the rivers, A film of crude on the sea, And the little kids of Tokyo Have car exhaust to breathe. I would like to sing a bright song, A song to make you smile, But the earth is dying, Earth, my child. Of all the children in the world, Itself the world is my special care, It's being raped by an engineer, And a billionaire, And I'm standing there. fc |
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15 Dec 06 - 10:26 AM (#1910252) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: STRONTIUM 90 From: Charley Noble Well, I didn't find the song in the SIERRA CLUB SURVIVAL SONG BOOK and it's all your fault that my back got strained trying to reach that book on the bottom shelf of the bookcase blocked by boxes of mysteries that my wife has piled up. However, I did find the song in REPRINTS FROM SING OUT! (1964-1973), p. 13. It was reprinted from SING OUT!, Volume 7 (1964). STRONTIUM 90 (By Ann and Marty (Marti) Cleary, © 1959) G-----------------D7 Last night I went to a party, -------------------------G Danced so I just about passed out; -----------------------C But just when the party was gayest A7-------------------D Some crazy guy began to shout: Chorus: C-----------------G--------------D7 Strontium, Strontium, Strontium Ninety fall-out ----------G Will get you even underground; ---------C------------------G Now if you want some Strontium, Strontium Ninety, ------D7-----------------G There's plenty enough to go around. What will we get from radiation? No necks, two necks or maybe three; Each one will have his own mutation; Nobody else will look like me! (CHO) So drink to the course of evolution; The next one may very well be you; Clouding the air with pollution, And we'll see you next year at the zoo! (CHO) The note to the song says: "The scientists tell us that Strontium 90, a highly poisonous element, is released in tremendous quanities by the exploding of atomic bombs. Here is the comment of two California sisters." The tune seems inspired by "The Frozen Logger" or something similar, with the A7 added to jazz it up. The chord placement is not working well this morning. Need more coffee! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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15 Dec 06 - 10:31 AM (#1910256) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Thanks, Charlie!!! Another old thread recovered and answered! Soon we'll have all of the first 500 finished, I hope. Think there is still about 30 or 40 not answered. Some are answered in later threads and I didn't link to them yet. |
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16 Dec 06 - 10:01 AM (#1910983) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: Charley Noble George- Was this an old thread request? I was thinking that old hippie was making a new one. Anyway, I'm happy to help. I wonder if old hippie would be interested in our old ditty "The Roaches Will Inherit The Earth." It's another anti-nuke song which I collaborated on in Michigan in the 1970's and which I'm sure I've posted a few times on this website. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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16 Dec 06 - 10:25 AM (#1910996) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: oldhippie Always looking for new material, Charley. |
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16 Dec 06 - 01:37 PM (#1911126) Subject: Lyr Add: THE ROACHES INHERIT THE EARTH From: Charley Noble Old hippie- Happy to comply (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 to line up chords): Annabel Dwyer & Friends, © 1979 East Lansing, Michigan Tune: "The Eggplant that Ate Cincinnati" The Roaches Inherit the Earth Em I must offer to you a confession, ---Am-------------------------Em It's one that I've known from my birth, -----------Am Given nuc-lear power, --Em In that final hour ----Bm The roaches inherit the earth! Chorus: Bm----Em------Bm Dah-di dum-dum, dum-dum, Bm----Em------Bm Dah-di dum-dum, dum-dum! You may call it my ghoulish obsession, It's a subject which gives me much mirth, Experts are all thumbs, When the meltdown comes, And the roaches inherit the earth... I've heard from the NRC stooges, And nuclear dupes by the score, Their plans were respected, Were seldom rejected, And nuke plants grew more and more... We'll soon have a Garden of Eden, We'll live off the fat of the land, Strontium 90 is dandy, Plutonium's candy, And for roaches won't it be grand... Experts are all thumbs, When the meltdown comes, And the roaches inherit the earth! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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17 Dec 06 - 04:54 PM (#1912069) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Yes This is an ancient request. This particular thread is relatively new, but there is an OLDER request for the same song. |
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17 Dec 06 - 08:12 PM (#1912234) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: Charley Noble Well, this kind of song does have a long half-life. I've probably got two dozen or so anti-nuke songs squirreled away from Michigan; Seabrook, NH; and our battle with Maine Yankee in the state I've retruned to. One of my favorites has to be Charlie King's "Acres of Clams," dedicated to the Clamshell Alliance. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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17 Dec 06 - 09:26 PM (#1912276) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Radiation song From: oldhippie Yeah, you're right Charlie. I always liked "19 miles from Shoreham town" by Kirk Kelly |
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24 Jun 13 - 07:27 PM (#3529960) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST,Judy Drake The song I remember went "Strontium, strontium, strontium ninety. Fallout will get you even underground. So if you want some strontium ninety, there's plenty enough to go around." Anyone else remember this one? Or who recorded it? |
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24 Jun 13 - 11:36 PM (#3530035) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: MGM·Lion The one I remember our singing on the first Aldermaston March, the one from London to Aldermaston in 1958 (after that they went the other way so they could end in Trafalgar Square for the rally) began Strontium 90, Strontium 90 Falling all around Strontium 90, Strontium 90 Poisoning the ground I remember we also had a sticker we would stick on the milk dispensing machines that all grocers' shops had outside at the time, which read "Milk + Strontium 90 = Cancer", with the CND logo {aka the Peace Sign Stateside ~~ but let's not get into that again!}. ~M~ |
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23 Sep 13 - 10:36 AM (#3560622) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST |
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24 Sep 13 - 07:55 AM (#3560791) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: EBarnacle There is another Strontium 90 song which contains the line: "Every time it rains, it rains . . . Strontium 90." Is there any recall of this one? |
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24 Aug 15 - 08:59 PM (#3732942) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST,Green Chorus: as well as i can remember Strontium strontium strontium ninety The fallout will get you even underground So if you want some strontium strontium ninety There's more than enough to o around |
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17 Nov 15 - 11:14 PM (#3751754) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST,dkelley the only source I know of for "Strontium 90" was a paperback sic-fi anthology published around 1960, with another gem "radiation blues". My copy long since lost, along with the volume title. I never heard anyone sing either gem. |
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18 Nov 15 - 04:23 PM (#3751896) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: EBarnacle A little more on the bit I mentioned above: Every time it rains, it rains--Strontium 90; Don't you know each cloud contains--Strontium 90. So when you hear it thunder, don't get under a tree, There'll be Strontium 90 for you and me. Obviously a parody of Pennies from Heaven but it would be nice to know the rest of it. |
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18 Nov 15 - 04:28 PM (#3751899) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: EBarnacle dkelley, you may be referring to one of Judith Merrill's "Year's Best SF anthologies. Unfortunately, the paper and glue were so cheap that most of them have decomposed by now. |
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18 Nov 15 - 04:34 PM (#3751902) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST,# http://www.folkways.si.edu/bann-the-bomb-recording/strontium-90/historical-song/music/track/smithsonian Don'tthink it's the one you mention, EB, but there's a sound sample there. |
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07 Feb 18 - 04:18 PM (#3904267) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST,Dale from Farmingdale I totally remember the lyrics from summer sleepaway camp (don't ask me why, I still remember lyrics from MAD Magazine song parodies too). FYI I'm 62 now. (CHORUS): Strontium, Strontium, Strontium 90 Fallout will get you even if you're underground So if you want some Strontium, Strontium 90 There's more than enough to go around What will become of radiation? No neck, two, or maybe three Each one will have his own mutation Nobody else will look like me So drink to the course of evolution The next one may very well be you Clouding the air with the pollution, And we'll see you next year at the zoo! |
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31 Mar 24 - 03:37 PM (#4200155) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST my parents used to play it when i was realy young,early sixties i think its in the aldermarston song book. this is what i remember of it, and i think there are two or three more verses. strontium 90 strontium 90 falling al around strontium 90 strontium 90 poiisening the groungd with the fall out falling all the while well soon be lit like a luminous dial if we dont stop strontium 90 from falling all around drink more milk all the posters say drink a pint of strontium every day but ive heared tell and i know its true that strontuium 90 aint good for you ref o you know that stuff its a load of guff takes a lot more strontytium before we snuff it rots youre bones makes your teeth fallot and shortens your life theres no doubt ref the only safe dose of strontium is absolutely nill deose any one have the words to: god rest ye merry gentlemen sleep easy in your beds the independant british bomb is flying overhead to go and kill the russians when the rest of us are dead oh its tidings of comfort and joy comfort and joy oh tidings of comfort and joy |
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31 Mar 24 - 04:35 PM (#4200158) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strontium 90 From: GUEST,artisanpete just found all the words to strontium 90 Strontium 90 Every time theres an H bomb test you get a little more strontium under your vest it rots youre bones makes your teeth fall out and shortens your life theres no doubt strontium 90 strontium 90 falling al around strontium 90 strontium 90 poisening the groungd with the fall out falling all the while well soon be lit like a luminous dial if we dont stop strontium 90 from falling all around drink more milk all the posters say drink a pint of strontium every day but ive heared tell and i know its true that strontium 90 aint good for you ref the experts say were safe enough takes a lot more strontium before we snuff but personally ive had my fill the only safe dose of strontium is absolutely nill ref lukimia will make you sick and when you get it you go pretty quick with the fall-out up and your blood count down just a little while and your underground ref if your tired of eating atomic dust got to stop the tests or the world goes bust the only party that gets my vote says ban the bomb on its election note ref |