The biggest wild cat in the world
\nAnd it’s the tiger
\nWho was hurled
\nout of his magical kingdom to
\nLive his incarnation through
\nBig and heavy and lives on his own
\nWith a camouflage thats his alone
\nCan run at 65 miles per hour
\nAnd can swim too and just loves a shower<\/p>\n
A century ago we know
\n100,000 were alive
\nNow 3000 or so in the wild
\nTrying to survive
\nLocked In cages
\nOr left to run
\nIn enclosures when the day is done
\nA Treeless existence
\nA hell on earth
\nWith nothing for them
\nOf any worth<\/p>\n
This is man unkind today
\nAnd let us thank the E I A
\nFor the good work that they do
\nReally trying to get through
\nTo governments and officialdom
\nThrough webs of vile intrigue
\nCriminality and vast corruption
\nOut of the obvious league<\/p>\n
CHina has a place in all of this
\nThat much we know
\nIt stimulates and perpetuates
\nThe trade and it does grow
\nSkins as rugs and bones as wine
\nMeat to eat as well
\nTeeth and claws and paws
\nSeemingly a hell<\/p>\n
On Earth for our wild creatures
\nWho have their role to play
\nThey make their mark with Nature
\nWho creates them everyday
\nThey have their instinctive knowledge
\nUnlike mankind who
\nGets brainwashed by the system
\nTo do what he does do<\/p>\n
Take hunters for example
\nPsychopaths with guns
\nFarmers seldom charmers
\nTheir arrogance just stuns
\nThose of us who realise
\nThe measure and the worth
\nOf those who Live off subsidies
\nFor polluting the earth<\/p>\n
In Xiongsen Tiger and Bear Mountain
\nThat is in Guilin
\nThere they farm the Tigers
\nA place of actual sin
\n1200 tigers In Enclosures
\nStruggling to be
\nHalf as fit as their counterparts
\nLiving wild and free<\/p>\n
Many more in cages
\nGoing off their head
\nPounding back and forth and back
\nTheir eyes look glazed and dead
\nThey really are in such a state
\nOf lethargy and woe
\nAnd outside loads of government cars
\nAll part of the show<\/p>\n
And monkeys little capuchins
\nWho look the worse for wear
\nWaiting to be slaughtered
\nAnd end up yea somewhere
\nProbably some elixir
\nTo give old men a way
\nBrown bears for bile
\nAnd Chinese style
\nAnd Bone wine so they say<\/p>\n
All this with our tiger boys
\nAnd realise that here
\nThey are selling in their gift shop
\nTiger wine it is clear
\nThat Tiger farming is lucrative
\nWhatever China writes
\nLook at the government officials here
\nIt’s all within our sights<\/p>\n
132 US. Dollars for a bottle of Tiger Wine
\nThat’s rice liquor and tiger bones
\n6 years old the line
\nIs clearly drawn the gift shop is selling
\nTIger wine
\nAnd farming tigers in their cages
\nIsn’t that divine!<\/p>\n
China has banned tiger bone in pills
\nIt’s not allowed
\nBut bones in wine and elixirs
\nJust look at the crowd
\nWaiting to buy a bottle
\nThat is what they do
\nIncluding government officials
\nWho also buy it too<\/p>\n
So what chance has the poor old Tiger
\nAgainst poachers and of course
\nHaving tigers farmed like this
\nReally it does force
\nThe hand of would be millionaires
\nWho pay the poacher men
\nTo catch the wild and rarer beasts
\nLying in their den<\/p>\n
The hunters too those canned hunters
\nThey are after trying
\nTo bag themselves a tiger for the wall
\nAs so many are dying
\nThey pay their ill mis gotten fortunes
\nTo the ethically unsound
\nWho lay on a quick kill for them
\nNo stalking it’s all around<\/p>\n
And so our precious tiger
\nThe light giver the hope
\nIs being cut to ribbons
\nBy those who need to cope
\nWho would sell their wives for sixpence
\nAnd their grandmothers too
\nSo what chance has the tiger
\nThe last chance is the zoo<\/p>\n
The restaurant in that tiger farm
\nWas selling Tiger Steak
\nJust thinking ahead and wondering
\nHow my heart would break
\nIf I had to work there
\nAs many Chinese do
\nSign the petition get your friends
\nAll to sign it too<\/p>\n
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