Nugent

Anyone who can machine gun pigs from an aeroplane
And then support a hunter whose done wrong
Has got to get a ticket to the hell we are sending him to
For its clear to me these two just don’t belong
In a caring sharing world for all this hunting
Is an arrogance beyond the space of time
This is what is wrong with the planet people have no empathy
Reptiles better suited for black slime

They haven’t got a clue about reality
The environment for them a mystery
Luring a wild lion out of a National Park
And shooting with a cross bow seems to me
Totally the wrong course they were all on
It caused immense distress and agony

That Lion was use to human beings actually
It wore its Oxford collar with some pride
The university was gathering data
How lions lived and where they went to hide
And now that bloody trigger hungry dentist
Had ruined all that research in his quest
To kill the greatest living lion that ever stalked
Zimbabwe’s fields
And probably you all now know the rest

Outside the dental clinic many gathered
Making it crystal clear they were aghast
As for coming for dentures or for fillings
That dear Walter Palmer is in the past
Despite your fancy letter I got yesterday
I will not ever darken your proud doors
Slaughtering a lion that you lured out of its protection
For that my friends you don’t get my applause