| Ever since the apple in the garden with Eve
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| Man always foolin' with things that cause him to grieve
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| He fool with the woman, with the Roman hot blood
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| And he almost washed up by the 40 day flood
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| But not since the doom day in old Babylon
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| Did he fool with anything so diabolical as the cyclotron
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| So if you wish to avoid the most uncomfortable trip to paradise
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| You will be scientific and take my advice
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| Leave de atom alone
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| Leave de atom alone
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| Don’t get smart alexy with the galaxy
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| Leave atom alone
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| If you want to keep riding in Cadillac car
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| If you don’t want to surely go to heaven prematurely on a shooting star
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| If it pleasures your heart to keep smoking that big fat cigar
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| Let me drive the point home
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| Leave de atom alone
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| If you want Mississippi to stay where it is
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| If you want to see Wall Street and General Motors continue in biz
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| If you want Uncle Sam to keep holding what’s yours and what’s his
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| If you’re fond of kith and kin in their skin and bone
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| Don’t fool around with hydrogen
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| Leave de atom alone
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| Bad for the teeth, bad for the bone
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| Don’t fool with it, leave it alone
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| If you like Paris in the springtime (Paris in the springtime)
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| London in the fall (London in the fall)
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| Manhattan in the autumn (Manhattan in the autumn)
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| With music on the mall (with music on the mall)
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| Stop fooling with the fallout
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| Or puff the cosmic ball
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| Or soon you will be fissionable material
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| (Bad for the teeth, bad for the bone
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| Don’t fool with it, leave it alone!)
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| Don’t mess around you dopes
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| Lay off the isotopes
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| Don’t you fuss with the nucleus
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| Don’t go too far with the nuclear
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| Don’t get gay with the cosmic ray
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| You’ll burn your fingers, lose your hair
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| You’ll leave big smog in the atmosphere
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| You’re most exasperated
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| When radioactivated
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| And cannot be located on telephone
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| Go on back! |
| (to rock and roll-a)
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| (To Rum and Coca Cola)
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| Go back to Eve, but leave de atom alone
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| (Bad for the teeth) That’s right!, (bad for the bone) Uh Huh!
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| (Don't fool with it)
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| You’ll spoil your complexion
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| Tie up the traffic
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| Jam up your plumbing
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| Lose your sweet disposition
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| (Don't fool with it)
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| Leave it alone |