Don't Believe Them When They Tell You

Don't believe them when they tell you it's a small World after all
For Planet Earth's a vast World and in any way not small
And though you meet some people who look you in the eye
And tell you they've been in every Country you still wonder if they lie?

In the wild and harsh Antacrtic where few explorers only go
It's a vast and empty Continent covered in ice and snow
Where the temperatures in winter over sixty five below
The coldest part of Planet Earth where only lichen grow.

Where the largest of the Penguins the Emperors in the winter
of the year
Under a flap of skin above their feet incubate one egg in weather most severe
In the seasons coldest and darkest days they huddle for body heat
And for weeks on end they have to live without a bite to eat.

The coldest part of Planet Earth where only the hardiest thrive
And where people without resources could not hope to survive
Even Scott and Amundsen great explorers on their day
That they'd seen all of Antarctica would hardly dare to say.

I doubt that anybody not even in their life time span
Could visit all of the towns in Asia from Russia to Pakistan
And see all of Australasia and the Americas and Africa and Europe north to south
On such stories of adventure I always have a doubt.

It may be just a saying it's a small World after all
But believe me it's a vast World and about it nothing small
And though I've done a bit of travelling and in a few lands I have been
It's a vast World that we live in and little of it I have seen.