Karaoké Uranium Fever Elton Britt

Well I don't know but I've been told

Uranium ore's worth more than gold

Sold my Cad'

I bought me a Jeep

I've got that bug and I can't sleep

Uranium fever has done and got me down

Uranium fever is spreadin' all around

With a Geiger counter in my hand

I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land

Uranium fever has done and got me down

Well I had a talk with the AEC and they brought out some maps that looked good to me

And one showed me a spot that he said he knowed so I straddled my Jeep and headed down the road

I reckon I drove about a hundred miles down a bumpy road out through the wilds

When all of a sudden

I bounced to a stop at the foot of a mountain

Didn't have no top

Uranium fever has done and got me down

Uranium fever is spreadin' all around

With a Geiger counter in my hand

I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land

Uranium fever has done and got me down

Well I took my Geiger and I started to climb right up to the top where I thought I'd find

A hunk of rock that would make it click just like I'd read about Vernon Pick

On the second day

I made the top and I'm tellin' you Steve

I was ready to stop

The only clickin' that I heard that day was the bones in my back that had gone astray

Uranium fever has done and got me down

Uranium fever is spreadin' all around

With a Geiger counter in my hand

I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land

Uranium fever has done and got me down

Well you pack up your things

You head out again into some unknown spot where nobody's been

You reach the spot where your fortune lies

You find it's been staked by seventeen other guys

Well I ain't kiddin'

I ain't gonna quit

That bug's done caught me and I've been bit

So with a Geiger counter and a pick in my hand

I'll keep right on stakin' that government land

Uranium fever has done and got me down

Uranium fever is spreadin' all around

With a Geiger counter in my hand

I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land

Uranium fever has done and got me down