The Dingo

For four thousands years or so
The Dingo has traversed this land
Probably brought here by Sulewesi
Traders
A wild dog to understand
Their wildness is to realise
Endurance is their thing
They really are substantial
And phenomenally do bring
A real sense of true being
Solid through and through
A breed with characteristics
And a trait that good and true

Three weeks without water
That everybody needs
Indigenous and instinctive
A survivor who succeeds
Out where the bush is treacherous
Where the sun is hot
Where everyone is at your throat
And farmers want you shot

The red earth of Australia
Sees sheep farmed here and there
Cattle in their thousands
The need therefore to share
The land we call Australia
The wild ones and those who
Are brought in to make money
By the farmers with a view

That wild souls are expendable
Wild souls need to be
Murdered in their thousands
Or poisoned, ignorantly
“1080” is the chosen route
Sodium fluoroacetate
A really nasty pesticide
For those who take the bait

Dogs and cats and rabbits
And foxes and the feral pig
It really will destroy them
This is something big
AUstralia drops it out of planes
And farmers use it too
Its a terrible way to
die
Its horrific thats my view

The Dingo fence is three
Times longer than the great wall of China
Designed to hold the rabbits back
And nothing could be finer
it does a job on DIngo’s too
5500 km long
But the farmers truly hate the dog
And they say they are not wrong
They want to murder everyone
They say it does not belong

If you are wild in Australia
Then alas you have to go
Look at the poor old Kangaroo
Shot to death we know
Joeys squashed pinkies lost
This is what they do
The meat trade wants to cream off
Everything it can
A clue

Cattle and sheep they bugger up the landscape
As we know
So profit is the keyword
The wild souls got to go
Its the same with the indigenous
No respect at all
They were here before the whites
If you can recall

This is never progress
Meat high profit sure
But tourists and the environment
Clearly they earn more
The power base though is the meat trade
The super stores ofcourse
Make fantastic margins
And are a powerful force

DIngo’s chew through cables
Can affect water supply
They take out sheep like crazy
And calves too, often die
They are noble survivors
They are mean and they are strong
Despite the years they have been here
The farmers believe it is wrong

They range throughout the outback
With an eminence we see
You could say that they do succeed
And are in the ascendancy
They really know the outback
They are champions infact
They lead the dance
And set the trends
And are quick to react

They probably saw off the tazzie Tiger
Back in 36
Its because they are so hardy
They kind of got the fix
On any group upsetting them
Thats how it seems to be
For 4000 years they have hit the road
And they still do actually.