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Protest Song:
Foot & Mouth - Pie in the Sky
Protest Song
about the shambolic treatment of animals and humans by officials and
politicians, in the Foot & Mouth outbreak
Yet again, following the Salmonella crisis mishandling,
the small slaughterhouse mishandling, the BSE mishandling, the politicians
and officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) are
mishandling this crisis or Foot & Mouth disease; turning our country into
a disaster area, wrecking livelihoods and putting farming families through
mental torture - quite unnecessarily.
Foot
& Mouth - Pie in the Sky
They're turning our pigs into pie in the sky
They're piling lives high - selling cheap
The cattle are lowering price as they fry
Mint sauce is too late for the sheep
And nobody cares to insist that they stop
Each farmer is hunted alone
Soon meat from the world will be sold in each shop
Of British Meat - never a bone
We joined the EC and it said that no more
Could slaughter-house sizes be small
So we shut em all down - now we cannot ignore
Great Britain&'s one great slaughter-hall
The Ministry men clad in wellies and white
are killing both broadly and ill
The army has got all our lambs in its sight
And bleating won't stop the next kill
They're bawling «disease-free» from pre-fabs at MAFF
Well what do they think we have got
If this is disease-free it sounds such a laugh
When the Dutch vaccinate on the spot
They're putting out rugs disinfectant and soap
They're leaving each carcase to lie
Then dragging it round the whole country in hope
Disease will disperse bye and bye
In Cheshire - a dairying county of note
Dead-waggons have feet sticking out
As shot cows insist on their last rite to vote
And spread the disease without doubt
Collect all your tickets for pie in the sky
Don't stop to reflect on just why
You're eating MAFF Pie as the animals die
Just eat up your pie in the sky
The barbeque smoke's spreading high in the air
And tourism's dead as a cow
As country folk tremble and grieve and despair
Ah stop this stupidity now
There's bonfires burning to east and to west
There's farm children's tears in the night
To north and to south - yes they're truly obsessed
Just sack MAFF - It's not very bright
You'd think Foot & Mouth was The Black Death again
Instead of a mildish disease
Blown out of proportion by Ministry men
to bring farming folk to their knees
They're turning our pigs into pie in the sky
They're piling lives high - selling cheap
The cattle are lowering price as they fry
Mint sauce is too late for the sheep
Copyright 2001 Charlotte Peters Rock
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