Pollution

Time was when an American about to go abroad

Would be warned by his friends or the guidebooks

Not to drink the water

But time have changed

And now a foreigner coming to this country

Might be offered the following advice

If you visit American city

You will find it very pretty

Just two things of things of which you must beware

Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air

Pollution, pollution

They got smog and sewage and mud

Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud

See the halibuts and the sturgeons

A-being wiped out a-by detergents

Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly

But they don't last long if they try

Pollution, pollution

You can use the latest toothpaste

And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste

Just go out for a breath of air

And you'll be ready for Medicare

The city streets are really quite a thrill

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will

Pollution, pollution

Wear a gas-mask and a veil

Then you can breathe, long as you don't inhale

Lots of things there that you can drink

But stay away from the kitchen sink

The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay

They drink at lunch in San Jose

So go to the city

See the crazy people there

Like lambs to the slaughter

They're drinking the water and breathing

The air