We'll All Be a Doubling

We’ll all be a-doubling, a-doubling, a-doubling
We’ll all be a-doubling in thirty-two years
We’ll all be a-doubling, a-doubling, a-doubling
We’ll all be a-doubling in thirty-two years
Two times two is four!
Two times four is eight!
Two times eight is sixteen
And the hour is getting late!
Two times sixteen is thirty-two
Twice that is sixty-four;
Next comes a hundred twenty-eight
And do you want to hear more?
Next comes two hundred fifty-six
Twice that five hundred and twelve;
Next, one thousand twenty-four
Just figure it out yourself
Keep doubling ten generations
You can have children over a million
Keep going another twenty
Your children would be over a trillion
Give it another three hundred years
Your children number a billion;
Keep doubling another millennium
You can have another quadrillion
For two thousand years we been praying
O Lord, deliver me please
The Lord helps them that helps themselves
We better get off our knees
Either people are going to have to get smaller
Or the world’s going to have to get bigger;
Or there’s a couple other possibilities
I’ll leave it to you to figure
I know I shouldn’t a been born!
I was my mama’s third child;
But now I’m hollering around the world
And I drive the Birchers wild!