oh Midgley Thomas Midgley
did you know what you were doing
your inventions are still spewing
and they will be our undoing
you came up with tetra Ethel Lead
when you were working for GM
got rid of the knock and Then it spread
gave us higher RPMs
and coated the entire planet
with a poison that kills
you’ve killed more people than anyone else
and got awards for your skills
oh Midgley Thomas Midgley
did you know what you were doing
your inventions are still spewing
and they will be our undoing
wasn’t enough weren’t quite done
so you made chlorofluorocarbon
you burned a hole in the ozone
with your great invention Freon
they say you’ve done more damage
than anyone alive
coated the planet with poison
and burned a hole in the sky
I think it’s kind of apropos
that you were killed by your creation
after lead poisoning and polio
disabled in humiliation
The pulley system to get out of bed
save the world and left you dead