They're rioting in Africa They're starvin' in Spain (Got it?) There's hurricanes in Florida (Florida) And Texas needs rain (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! Oh, we can be thankful and tranquil and and proud Man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud And we can be certain that some lucky day Someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away (Now everybody! Here's a new section, a new verse) There's strife in southeast Asia (and Afghan) And Afganistan (and south Pakistan) The Persian Gulf's in chaos (chaos) Watch out, Pakistan They speak with such eloquence of peace at the U.N. While soldiers are marchin' on all of our true friends The Russians are a menace The Ayatollah is a shit (Aw, Michael, how could you? All right, that kind've slipped out! Excuse me I'd say that's pretty appropriate myself) With any luck, they might do each other in