Well a little bitty termite, he came a-knockin'
Knockin' on my front door
Well he walked right in and sat right down
He started nibblin' on the kitchen floor
Well he chewed on the walls and the ceilings in the halls
Lord knows he tried
But he kept getting thinner, never got no dinner
And finally he sat up an' cried!
He said "it's plastic!"
I know "it's plastic!"
Well I know it ain't no wood an' it can't do me no good!
Because it's plastic!
I said "it's plastic!"
Everything's gonna be plastic by and by!
Well now early one day in the month of May
I went down to the beach
There were cuties and beauties in their lil' bathin' suities
And all of 'em within my reach!
Now a 38-24-36 miss just happened to walk my way
I said "please don't think me nervy,
But you look so very curvy, tell me how you got that way!"
She said "it's plastic!"
Oh yes it's plastic!
"It's as pretty as can be, but you know that it ain't me"
Because it's plastic
I said it's plastic
Everything's gonna be plastic by and by!
They say that someday soon,
We'll have a plastic moon, a-shinin' through the plastic trees!
There's gonna be plastic ladies with
Plastic babies a-bouncin' on their plastic knees!
Well you may not agree that it's all gonna be
And this record may make you sore
But if you have desire to throw it in
The fire or smash it down on the floor
Remember it's plastic!
I said it's plastic
Now you can boil it and try to bake it!
Yeah, you know that ya just can't break it!
Because it's plastic!
You know it's plastic!
Everything's gonna be plastic by and by!