Lyrics For Mars

ATOMIC SERMON

Early Sunday mornin’, the preacher gave his warnin’
Said you’d better get down and pray.
You better listen to me mister, and you listen sister,
We’re gettin’ close to that great day.

You better listen to the teachin’ of the Good Book I’m preachin’
Said that men would fly like birds.
But brother do you hear me, these things scare me,
I don’t know how to put it in words.

You’d better stop them scientists from re-searchin’
‘Cause they done gone too far.
They got these boys flyin’ faster than sound,
And the whole world’s in a war.

Man that atomic energy sure scares me,
‘Cause if it will do what they claim,
You better start thinkin’ ‘bout savin’ your soul,
Or Sam Johnson ain’t my name!

Just a plain bomb is bad but that A-bomb is worse,
And they done named that H-bomb well.
Thousand times stronger than that A-bomb is,
And it’s gonna blow us all to - kingdom come!

Now I’m not tryin’ to scare you, I’m just statin’ facts
They said they’d build man-made stars.
But that’s a job I’m gonna leave to the Lord,
And I ain’t got no business on Mars.

You’d better stop them scientists from re-searchin’
‘Cause they done gone too far.
They got these boys flyin’ faster than sound,
They got the whole world in a war.

Man that atomic energy sure scares me,
‘Cause if it will do what they claim,
You better start thinkin’ ‘bout savin’ your soul,
Or Sam Johnson ain’t my name!

Now I’m thankful for the drugs that kills the bugs,
The mosquitos, and the mice and the fleas.
Instead of us tryin’ to get up to Mars,
We better get down on our knees!

And thank the good Lord for the world we have,
And in closin’ I got this to say:
If God intended we should go to Mars
Why’d He put it so far away?

You better stop them scientists from re-searchin’
‘Cause they done gone too far.
They got these boys flyin’ faster than sound,
They got the whole world in a war.

Man that atomic energy sure scares me,
‘Cause if it will do what they claim,
You better start thinkin’ ‘bout savin’ your soul,
Or Sam Johnson ain’t my name!

You think I’m kiddin”?
Sam Johnson ain’t my name!

Billy Hughes and his Rhythm Buckeroos [1953]