The Powers Of Polonium Lyrics

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Back in 1898 Marie Curie discovered polonium

It took her tonnes of rock to separate just a milligram: quel pandémonium!

She hated Poland being occupied, so she called her thing polonium

She won a Nobel Prize, but she was more content

To free the Polish people with their element

That's the power of polonium

The winning power, the noble power of polonium

Back in 1942 the Allied Forces took polonium

For the chain reactions in their A-bombs too, together with plutonium

Later, satellites and cars on the moon they would run on polonium

As a power source it was well on its way

But the nifty applications fell into decay

That's the power of polonium

The fading power, decaying power of polonium

Polonium may kill you

Polonium may thrill you

Polonium, don't eat it

Polonium, don't breathe it

'Cause you're safe just as long as you don't get intoxicated

By the powers of polonium

Back in 1964 they found tobacco holds polonium

The tobacco leaves attract, for sure, tiny bits of polonium

Smoke gets in your body and soul, and after 'bout a decennium

If you've had too much radiation in your lungs

The cancers that have grown there are the smoking guns

That's the power of polonium

So you're puffing, so you're puffing on polonium

(Back in 2006 there was a homicide with polonium

Russian disident Alexander Litvinenko drank a deadly mix

in a London hotel called the Millennium

He got sick and had to be hospitalised, and entered a delirium

At first the doctors thought maybe a serious overdose on thallium

Or maybe then yet another, undetectable element ending in -ium

By the time they found the culprit

Their patient had died of polonium

The perpetrators thought that they could shoot the moon

But they'd been leaving traces indicating pretty soon

Evil powers of polonium)