The Merry Minuet

Kingston Trio



They're rioting in Africa,

They're starving in Spain.

There's hurricanes in Florida,

And Texas needs rain

The whole world is festering

With unhappy souls.

The French hate the Germans,

The Germans hate the Poles;

Italians hate Yugoslavs,

South Africans hate the Dutch,

And I don't like anybody very much!



But we can be tranquil

And "thankfill" and proud,

For man's been endowed

With a mushroom-shaped cloud.

And we know for certain

That some lovely day

Someone will set the spark off,

And we will all be blown away!



They're rioting in Africa,

There's strife in Iran.

What nature doesn't do to us

Will be done by our fellow man