There was a time when farmers
\nIn South Africa grew fruit
\nAnd then they heard about
\nLION BONES And money is at the root
\nOf all the scandalous pastimes
\nAnd the TCM route felt
\nDoable and many of them
\nLike the cards they dealt<\/p>\n
They had to work a system
\nThat paid out at both ends
\nFarming lions petting zoos
\nThe message that all sends
\nVolunteers from Europe
\nAnd America will pay
\nTo work with baby lion cubs
\nClearly that was a way<\/p>\n
So farm the lions
\nLet the cubs
\nTame them in a way
\nThen put them into enclosures
\nAnd advertise a day
\nFor so called hunting people
\nTo come and join the fray
\nAn all in package of hunting
\nBagging a male lion in a day<\/p>\n
Get into the mindset of these so called fools
\nStraight out of some city street
\nBuying meat from malls
\nWho might do a spot of fishing
\nAnd who knows if we sell
\nUsing social media
\nOur profits we can swell<\/p>\n
Produce a lovely web page
\nGuarantee a kill
\nThen give them all a price list
\nThen pump up the thrill
\nOf coming out to vAfrica
\nOf killing in a day
\nNo stalking through the
\nSweat and heat
\nJust driving on the day<\/p>\n
Collected from the airport
\nEverything on tap
\nA bit of rifle practice
\nEveryones a sap
\nThey will part with their money
\nMost of it ill earned
\nTaking advantage of others
\nThats what they have learned<\/p>\n
So canned hunting
\nAnd trophy hunting
\nIt was born the day
\nThe farmers gave up growing fruit
\nAnd learned another way
\nOf getting great big bank accounts
\nWith margins in the sky
\nKill the animals
\nSkin them and their bones
\nShipped where high<\/p>\n
Premiums are possible
\nShipped out as tiger bone
\nInto the chinese market
\nWhere paradise is sown
\nTo vietnam for processing
\nMonkey and tortoise shell
\nMixed up with the lion bones
\nAnd then sent onto HELL<\/p>\n
Tiger cake except there is no tiger
\nTo be found
\nAnd they have made a killing
\nborn out of the ground
\nAnd we can get these idiots
\nAnd boost their ego’s high
\nAnd even hang the carcass
\nIn a tree facing the sky<\/p>\n
Just do it get the thirty grand
\nAnd perhaps another punt
\nIf they bring their wife a giraffe maybe
\nIt does sound like a stunt
\nBut its the way to sell it
\nGame hunters come and see
\nAnything you choose to kill
\nComes with our guarantee<\/p>\n
And we will ship your trophy home
\nTaxidermy here
\nAll the shipping sorted
\nEverything is clear
\nAnd so they come in droves
\nTo prove how manly theyg all are
\nThey have the expectation
\nThat back home they will be star<\/p>\n
In the local rifle club
\nWith a tusker or a lion
\nOr a crocodile whatever
\nAnything is fine
\nAnd so these bad ass
\nHunters
\nDecked out in all the gear
\nThey got the designer camouflage
\nShitting themselves with fear<\/p>\n
They go out on safari
\nAnd a lion is put in place
\nDrugged up to the eye balls
\nRealities disgrace
\nAnd so the great kidology
\nIs working overtime
\nIts all a big illusion
\nAs the artfulness does climb<\/p>\n
High fives one dead animal
\nPhotographs all round
\nStick it on social media
\nFake hunting, they were bound
\nTo be ripped off these so called hunters
\nImposters through and through
\nAll involved in murdering wild life
\nFor that is what they do<\/p>\n
And, by their ambivalence
\nAnd perversion of their soul
\nThey promote this evil farming
\nThats now out of control
\nPetting farms for the ignorant
\nThe whole malarkey here
\nIs one of such mendaciousness
\nAnd cruelty and fear<\/p>\n
The spivvery is paying though
\nHuge dividends abroad
\nPeople are being ripped off
\nWhich the wirld cannot afford
\nThe animals are being
\nDisrespected everyday
\nIts cruelty personified
\nIn every single way<\/p>\n
The so called hunters
\nDuped ofcourse ripped off
\nSome might see
\nOthers will just puff and blow
\nWith jiggery pokery
\nSkins and teeth and bones
\nAnd eyes its terrible to say
\nHow much is being ruined
\nBy this evil everyday<\/p>\n
And so we see before us
\nA victim of this here
\nHanging on the tree a lion
\nWho didnt feel the fear
\nHaving been around the humans
\nEver since he was a child
\nBut No one in their right mind
\nWould see the lion as wild<\/p>\n
But the hunters they look happy
\nProudly they can say
\nThey spent all day a tracking
\nThat wild lion
\nAnd display
\nIts handsome body hanging
\nTragically in a tree
\nAnd All of us should work hard to get it banned
\nNow urgently<\/p>\n
CANNED AND TROPHY HUNTING
\nCruelty and terror for all involved
\nIn this spurious treachery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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