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A coworker of mine who's retiring today always sang this when at her grumpiest, which warned us all to steer clear. So a blast from the way past.

The Merry Minuet
Kingston Trio

They're rioting in Africa
They're starving in Spain
There's hurricanes in Florida
and Texas needs rain
The whole world is festering
with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans
The Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
and I don't like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
for man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't do to us
will be done by our fellow man.