Fred Small - Too Many People lyrics

CHORUS: Too many people having too many babies Got to love them babies but there's Too many peopple having too many babies Got to love them babies but it's out of control Adam and Eve time on their hands Hyperactive glands room to expand Once they began begatting they begatted to excess Eschewing tactics prophylactic now we're in a mess Because there's CHORUS When Columbus sailed the ocean we were 400 million Industrial revolution still under a billion The Great Depression hit 2.1 billion Now we're pushing the millennium 6 billion and counting Civil wars rumbling refugees stumbling Forests falling deserts creeping Traffic crawling resiources depleting Shoppers shopping for pleasures fleeting When there's CHORUS Once I lived in the city it was too big and noisy So I moved to the country to stop and smell the rosies All my city friends joined me and put up nice new housies Now it's too big and noisy think I'll move to the country Some say no no no no it's not the population It's consumption pollution unequal distribution I say that's so but it's a simple equation Pepulation times pollution equals no solution When there's CHORUS If you are a child welcome to the world This blue-green earth is your gift by birth May you rock to it's rhythms may you sing it's anthems And if you have babies please stop at two Because there's CHORUS CHORUS (... please stop at two