Leave the Atom Alone - Lena Horne, Ricardo Montalban

Ever since the apple in the garden with Eve

Man always foolin' with things that cause him to grieve

He fool with the woman, with the Roman hot blood

And he almost washed up by the 40 day flood

But not since the doom day in old Babylon

Did he fool with anything so diabolical as the cyclotron

So if you wish to avoid the most uncomfortable trip to paradise

You will be scientific and take my advice

Leave de atom alone

Leave de atom alone

Don’t get smart alexy with the galaxy

Leave atom alone

If you want to keep riding in Cadillac car

If you don’t want to surely go to heaven prematurely on a shooting star

If it pleasures your heart to keep smoking that big fat cigar

Let me drive the point home

Leave de atom alone

If you want Mississippi to stay where it is

If you want to see Wall Street and General Motors continue in biz

If you want Uncle Sam to keep holding what’s yours and what’s his

If you’re fond of kith and kin in their skin and bone

Don’t fool around with hydrogen

Leave de atom alone

Bad for the teeth, bad for the bone

Don’t fool with it, leave it alone

If you like Paris in the springtime (Paris in the springtime)

London in the fall (London in the fall)

Manhattan in the autumn (Manhattan in the autumn)

With music on the mall (with music on the mall)

Stop fooling with the fallout

Or puff the cosmic ball

Or soon you will be fissionable material

(Bad for the teeth, bad for the bone

Don’t fool with it, leave it alone!)

Don’t mess around you dopes

Lay off the isotopes

Don’t you fuss with the nucleus

Don’t go too far with the nuclear

Don’t get gay with the cosmic ray

You’ll burn your fingers, lose your hair

You’ll leave big smog in the atmosphere

You’re most exasperated

When radioactivated

And cannot be located on telephone

Go on back!

(to rock and roll-a)

(To Rum and Coca Cola)

Go back to Eve, but leave de atom alone

(Bad for the teeth) That’s right!, (bad for the bone) Uh Huh!

(Don't fool with it)

You’ll spoil your complexion

Tie up the traffic

Jam up your plumbing

Lose your sweet disposition

(Don't fool with it)

Leave it alone