it was just a little while ago i glued my ears to the radio the announcer was sayin we d better beware a crisis was hangin way up in the air crawlin on the ground swimmin in the sea headin for me well i didn t know if i was for or agin it he was yellin and screamin a mile a minute well he said here comes the president but first this word from pepsodent have whiter teeth have cleaner breath when you re facin nuclear death and then president john began to speak and i knew right away he wouldn t be weak well he said he d seen some missile bases and terrible smiles on cuban faces close pictures carryin land reform too far giving land to the ussr well he said we mustn t be afraid we re settin up a little blockade put our ships along the cuban shores and if the russian bear yells and roars we ll let him have it from turkey and greece formosa and spain the peaceful west european plain from alaska and greenland we ll use our means and twenty thousand submarines we re gonna teach the russians a lesson for trying to upset the balance of power now most americans stood behind the president and his military minds but me i stood behind a bar dreamin of a spaceship getaway car head for mars any other planet that has bars like gerde s folk city  yes it seemed the stand was strong and plain but some republicans was a goin insane and they still are well they said our plan was just too mild spare the rod and spoil the child let s sink cuba into the sea and give em back democracy under the water well the deadline was set for ten o clock for a cold war it was a gettin hot well the russians tried the russians failed homeward bound those missiles sailed mr khrushchev said better red than dead 