"Odds on Favorite" - Pete Seeger From the album "Headlines and Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs" (1999) [Intro] [Verse 1] To make a long long story terse   Be it blessing be it curse The Lord designed this universe With built-in obsolescence Each twinkling little star and sun Enjoys its own atomic run Exploding when its time is done With cosmic incandescence [Verse 2] Astronomers predict someday   Our own sun will blaze away; There’ll be a glorious display Of sunburst helium masses Our little planet Earth below Will join this pyrotechnic show With blazing hydrogen aglow And thermonuclear gasses [Verse 3] Thank God this great combustion day Is several billion years away So as philosophers all say Why fret why fume why worry? A jillion moons will wane and wax   Sit down make out your income tax Enjoy your life be calm relax For God is in no hurry [Outro] But oh my friends I have a hunch Mankind might beat God to the punch