The empire burns
  The umpire's not laughing
  The president's resented,
  The ambassadors's a night club
  You cannot get it out
  
  It's stuff you cannot taste or see
  It's stuff you cannot smell
  It's stuff that's twenty times as hot
  As the hottest stuff in hell
  
  Harrisburg oh Harrisburg
  The plant is melting down
  The people out in Harrisburg
  Are getting out of town
  And when this stuff gets in
  You cannot get it out
  
  The company said it would not blow
  The government said it might
  Harrisburg oh Harrisburg
  I wonder who is right
  
  Who can leave it behind, the curtains are drawn
  There's something I must say to you
  You cannot get it out