The Merry Minuet written by Sheldon Harnick ©1958 They're rioting in Africa (whistling) The whole world is festering with unhappy souls But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud They're rioting in Africa (whistling)
Current events in the global news remind me of an old poem written
by Sheldon Harnick and later popularized in song by both the Smothers
Brothers and the Kingston Trio back in the early 60s. It is so
timely... -Stan Deyo 20 June 2002
(click the title to hear the original recording)
They're starving in Spain (whistling)
There's hurricanes in Flo-ri-da (whistling)
and Texas needs rain
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!!
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!!
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't so to us
Will be done by our fellow "man"