The Merry Minuet

The Kingston Trio

Words and Music by Sheldon Harnick



-From their 1959 LP "From the Hungry"





They're rioting in Africa (whistling)

They're starving in Spain (whistling)

There's hurricanes in Flo-ri-da (whistling)

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 thankful 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 (whistling)

There's strife in Iran

What nature doesn't so to us

Will be done by our fellow *man*---Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz

ronhontz@worldnet.att.net