It’s the drink that you don’t pour
Now when you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale
Boom! Atomic Cocktail.
Causes a splash all around the place
When you see it coming, grab your suitcase
It’ll send you through the sky like airmail
Boom! Atomic Cocktail.
You push a button, turn a dial
Your work is done for miles and miles
When it hits it’s bound to shake
‘Cause it feels just like an earthquake.
That’s the drink that you don’t pour
When you take one sip you won’t need anymore
If you’re as small as a beetle or big as a whale
Boom! Atomic Cocktail.
Now when you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale
Boom! Atomic Cocktail.
Causes a splash all around the place
When you see it coming, grab your suitcase
It’ll send you through the sky like airmail
Boom! Atomic Cocktail.
You push a button, turn a dial
Your work is done for miles and miles
When it hits it’s bound to shake
‘Cause it feels just like an earthquake.
That’s the drink that you don’t pour
When you take one sip you won’t need anymore
If you’re as small as a beetle or big as a whale
Boom! Atomic Cocktail.
Contributed by Pierre André Lienhard - 2025/2/26 - 21:57
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Performed by Slim Gaillard Quartette
Written-By – Slim Gaillard
On 10" shellac: Atomic Cocktail / Yep-Roc-Heresay
Double Bass – Tiny Brown
Drums – Zutty Singleton
Guitar, Vocal – Slim Gaillard
Piano – Dodo Marmarosa
In December 1942, Gaillard was drafted into the United States Army Air Forces. There, Corporal Gaillard was an assistant crew chief working on B-26 “Marauder bombers” at Laughlin Field, Del Rio, Texas. [...]. He resumed his music career on his release from the draft in 1944. Upon his return he released the song "Atomic Cocktail", which featured seemingly lighthearted lyrics laced with symbolism about nuclear war.
Source: Slim Gaillard - Wikipedia