Imagine being on your way to Israel
and being told your are going to Vietnam
Wellard they are hard al’right
7000 of us
shaking in our hooves now day and night
stuck slow in the ocean bobbing this way
and that way all our milk will become cream
Leaving Freo god knows what is happening
its Vietnam another awful dream
another 2 weeks chugging on one engine
will we ever get there
I don’t know
our welfare seemingly now in the balance
and all we are to them is just cargo
living, breathing, farting, shitting, livestock
I bet with you protesters there are reams
of paperwork now flooding every which way
the Vietnamese are a cruel bunch so it seems
when we get there we’ll be effing murdered
hung on chains and just cut up they say
Its enough to make a monkey bite its mother
and it is unfair to make as all now pay
standing up in ships holds rocking left to right
and hope to God that live exports will end
many of us know this incarnation
is torturous and now of course they send
a boy to do a man’s job we are sickening
and will come down with something very soon
the rolling of the tide fucks up our inside
its makes us sweel like a balloon
Live exports are an anathema
a cruel and horrid way
of ending our lives truly
making animals pay
for what we get is awful stress
really all the way
agony in the slaughterhouse
its hellish just to say
they ship us down to Freo
that’s a dusty to road to hell
lug us on the ship
and they bloody tell;
a slap across our buttocks
from some sailor boy
and a kick or two from a deck hand
so nothing to enjoy
bruised and weary eating crap and weeing
farting like the clappers phew the smell
its awful in this hold at night and its bloody cold
and at the end of this of course its hell
we know the vietnamese are very cagey
they went through that long war
and so they be
after eating anything even the lice upon our backs
so what chance have we got there actually
How we are killed in Oz
well that is their way
how we are murdered in Vietnam
is there’s
actually if we could all leap overboard
and swim away
the answer to our prayers
It scares the shit out of us
all this shaking
at least we have a chance
if we get away
maybe the sharks may spare us
and we end up on some island
Paradise for a few of
us today
The farmers do not care an emu’s bum for us
they ship us off swe really have no place
Israel, Gaza, Vietnam they could’t care a less
which is I have to say such a disgrace