{"id":50824,"date":"2021-04-21T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=50824"},"modified":"2021-04-21T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:55:49","slug":"killing-fields-of-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/04\/killing-fields-of-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing fields of Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50,000 years<br \/>\nIf thats not long enough<br \/>\nTo walk the earth<br \/>\nThe red earth of the bush<br \/>\nAlongside aborigines<br \/>\nPainting in their caves<br \/>\nWhere were the Victorians<br \/>\nIn their hell born graves<\/p>\n<p>None of them the apple<br \/>\nOf their mothers eye<br \/>\nThousands of years<br \/>\nWould run and run<br \/>\nAnd have to go on by<br \/>\nUntil the brave Victorians<br \/>\nCame onto the scene<br \/>\nAnd observed the fine Bush Angels<br \/>\nAnd the people who had been<\/p>\n<p>Guardians of their planet<br \/>\nLearning all the time<br \/>\nCreated to be immortal<br \/>\nTo make the honest climb<br \/>\nDesigned to run upon the earth<br \/>\nAnd to re plant, as they ran<br \/>\nEssential to the environment<br \/>\nThe environment of man<\/p>\n<p>Each Kangaroo, perfection<br \/>\nA dream state souls of souls<br \/>\nGenuine and attested<br \/>\nTaking up their roles<br \/>\nHistorical and well grounded<br \/>\nTo Subsist and endure<br \/>\nThey ate wild and they stood the heat<br \/>\nAnd genetically  were pure<\/p>\n<p>Roll on many centuries<br \/>\nAnd Australia was born<br \/>\nTill now in fact<br \/>\nThe countryside, is now strangely torn<br \/>\nA\u2019sunder as the Meat Trade<br \/>\nThat glorious murdering crew<br \/>\nWho employ the rougher elements<br \/>\nAnd go shooting as they do<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t call them Bush Angels<br \/>\nThey use their farmers terms<br \/>\nThey think of them as vermin<br \/>\nFrequented by the worms<br \/>\nShooters, lousy marksmen<br \/>\nA few days training they<br \/>\nAre out there in the bush at night<br \/>\nBlowing souls away<\/p>\n<p>Paid by cattle farmers<br \/>\nAnd the government who think<br \/>\nBecause they all wear grey suits<br \/>\nThat they somehow there<br \/>\na link<br \/>\nWith intelligence and knowledge<br \/>\nExcept they don\u2019t have a clue<br \/>\nThey give license to the murdering<br \/>\nAnd butchering they do<\/p>\n<p>And its not just  reds they are after<br \/>\nFemales get it too<br \/>\nTheir joeys and their pinkies<br \/>\nAny specimen  will do<br \/>\nCut them up disgorge them<br \/>\nChop their heads off, they<br \/>\nLeave them scattered where they fell<br \/>\nIn a vile and odious way<\/p>\n<p>Shooting around the countryside<br \/>\nFrightening farmers who<br \/>\nIn the early hours will find<br \/>\nJust what maniacs do<br \/>\nThese beautiful intelligent angels<br \/>\nReally ripped apart<br \/>\nHeads torn off and  left to rot<br \/>\nTheir intestines and their heart<br \/>\nStrewn all, over everywhere<br \/>\nNo respect at all<br \/>\nThey call themselves Australians<br \/>\nAnd imagine that they rule<\/p>\n<p>The roost they are a bunch of sicko\u2019s<br \/>\nIncompatible with life<br \/>\nOpposed to all things natural<br \/>\nTheir unfriendliness brings strife<br \/>\nThe decapitate the infants<br \/>\nAn aversion any day<br \/>\nthey are an abomination<br \/>\nThey way they then display<br \/>\nThe carnage cor the vanquished<br \/>\nThe wounded to espy<br \/>\nAnd the farmers wives to witness<br \/>\nThe evil and thats no lie<\/p>\n<p>A grim and forbidding battleground<br \/>\nThe worst intentions there<br \/>\nThe malice and the bad blood<br \/>\nFor all of us to share<br \/>\nThe foul mouthed abusive scoundrels<br \/>\nWho should be put away<br \/>\nWhip them with a cat o nine<br \/>\nAnd leave  them on display<br \/>\nHanging from a gum tree<br \/>\nHigh enough so they<br \/>\nWill feel the wrath<br \/>\nOf the hungry beasts<br \/>\nWho may then fly away<\/p>\n<p>As for the so called government<br \/>\nIn their city best<br \/>\nTake them to the bush and leave them<br \/>\nLet nature do the rest<br \/>\nThe relentless weather<br \/>\nThe meat ants let them be<br \/>\nStretched out on the red earth<br \/>\nTo be eaten before tea.<\/p>\n<p>Leave my friends the Kangaroo\u2019s<br \/>\nLeave them well alone.<br \/>\nAs for the sodding shooters<br \/>\nThey lousiest shots ever known<br \/>\nHang them up as targets<br \/>\nAnd give them all what for<br \/>\nAnd  leave the kangaroos alone<br \/>\nOr we\u2019re coming to start a war<\/p>\n<p>50,000 long long years<br \/>\nOf History and pain<br \/>\nA lot of years have all flow  by<br \/>\nThen you lot, yea you came<br \/>\nAnd really never ever<br \/>\nStopped killing it  was your thing<br \/>\nEvery creature on Gods earth<br \/>\nFelt the awful sting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50,000 years If thats not long enough To walk the earth The red earth of the bush 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