[Verse 1]
I finally found a job in the paper
Movin' barrels at a chemical plant
There's a shiny-looking dust on my fingers
Goin' up my nose and into my lungs

[Chorus]
It's the Kepone poisoning, Minamata (Kepone!)
It's the Kepone poisoning, Minamata (Kepone!)
At the grimy Kepone factory (Kepone!)
Turning people into bonsai trees

[Verse 2]
Now I've got these splitting headaches
I can't quite get it up no more
I can't sleep and it's driving me crazy
I shake all day and I'm seeing double, yeah!

[Chorus]
It's the Kepone poisoning, Minamata (Kepone!)
It's the Kepone poisoning, Minamata (Kepone!)
At the grimy Kepone factory (Kepone!)
Turning people into bonsai trees

[Bridge]
Gonna go down to your big metal building
Gonna slam right through your bright metal door
Gonna grab you by your Sta-Prest collar
And ram some Kepone down your throat
[Verse 3]
The lawyer says, "That's the breaks, kid
Gonna gnarl and rot the rest of your life
If you don't sue, we'll give you a Trans-Am..."
That I'll never drive 'cause I shake all the time!

[Chorus]
'Cause of the Kepone poisoning, Minamata (Kepone!)
It's the Kepone poisoning, Minamata (Kepone!)
At the grimy Kepone factory, ee-yeah! (Kepone!)
Aw, aw, cough