Mutton busting

its rodeo for children
Let the sheeps wool grow
So it can then be used to tug
So they don’t fall off you know
Unharnessed and unsaddled
Bare back so to say
The tots get on these ruminants
For the big belt buckle day

They are out to stay on
Beat the sheep who wants them off Their back
Learning at a young age to abuse
And take the flack
And sowing seeds for rodeo
That is a dying set
Cowboys In their four by fours
That’s my honest bet

It’s all about the sponsorship
Keeping the golden goose
Quacking and attacking the market share
Abuse
The calves the Bulls the sheep now
Animals do not need
Corporate intervention
Ever to succeed

As for children for the novelty
To me it lacks regard
Sheep are docile creatures
Their lives are more than hard
They don’t need to be ridden
hair tugged off their back
All the noise and clatter
It’s an unnatural attack

For me it is no better
Than the bull fighters in Spain
Animals don’t need this stress
For them there is no gain
There’s pain that is a certainty
But gain nothing at all
There freedom to be sheep
Is lost ŵe need to overhaul

Our minds and our philosophy
To love animals and to care
To join them in the pasture
And be happy to be there
Absorbing all of nature
A pastime to behold
Not ride them in an arena
For more tickets to be sold

mutton busting it’s in coordination
An anomaly if you ask me
There isn’t a salvation
To torturing an animal
And labelling it as sport
Brainwashing little children
Who apparently are caught

Up in the parents maladies
Perhaps they couldn’t ride
And want to see their protege
On the other side
Progressing to where they did not get
Eventually who knows
Beaten up by some wild bull
Who in panic really shows

“I practice on my dog”one said
And sometimes on my dad
So dogs are now abused as well
Really to me it’s sad
Corporatism’s fingers are now in every pie
They start them young in IOWA
For me I would fight shy

Children should be children
Let’s teach them how to see
Get out on the hill tops
Breathe fresh air and be
Part of Nature’s awakening
Observe the creatures who
Quietly graze most of their days
Where the skies are blue

Learn the ways of nature
Of predation and Of prey
Learn respect for living souls
That share this earth today
The disarray and chaos
Of rodeo and strife
What must be for them a whirlwind
Of dislocated strife

Their focus should be knowledge
And learning how to play
Learning how to get through life
More safely everyday
The miracles are out there
The countryside is wide
Open and to be respected
Really from outside

Fun I heard it mentioned
By adults how can that be
Animals being abused
Already they are not free
Being set up to be tortured
We too feel the pain
When our hair is pulled a bit
To me it’s all insane

Animals are sentient
They have feeling and they care
No one wants their hair pulled
No one anywhere
And sheep are really beautiful
Quiet and reserved souls
Able to withstand a lot
In their respective roles

Hardly powerful creatures
Climbers to a tee
They can take on the elements
That’s their priority
Ridden in a rodeo
By children is not their thing
Posterity will not reward
Them for the crap they bring

Down on sheep and Bulls and calves
It’s cruel and should not be
It’s really passed its sell by date
The sponsors though are key
They sell whatever they are making
Into The market place but sowing seeds
With children is to me just a disgrace