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Old Man Santo had a Farm

from Joe's Report from the Afterlife by Swift Years

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Old Man Santo had a farm E-I-E-I-O

And on this farm he grew some wheat E-I-E-I-O
He thought making more money would be really sweet E-I-G-M-O
So he spliced a gene here and he spliced a gene there
Here a gene there a gene everywhere he spliced a gene
Good-bye genes bad hygiene

First he flogs his Franken food
It’s immune to bugs and weeds
And each year he bakes bigger better bread by selling you the seeds.

Old Man Santo had some farm E-I-G-M-O

And on this farm he had some sheep ….Ba-Ba-G-M-O
He thought making more money would be really sweet Ba-Ba-C-L-O-N-E
So he cloned a sheep here and he cloned a sheep there
Here a sheep there a sheep everywhere he cloned a sheep
Hello dolly, Hello dolly, Hello dolly, Hello dolly

Old Man Santo had some farm Ba-Ba-C-L-O-N-E

And on that farm he had some chickens - cluck cluck cluck atch-oo.
And every last chicken come down with the flu - cluck cluck atch-oo.
There was a chicken flew here and a chicken flu there
Here flu there flu everywhere the chicken flew
Hope you know what to do when the chickens give their flu to you.

Old Man Santo had some farm - cluck cluck cluck atch-oo

And on this farm he had some cows Moo-Moo-G-M-O
Some beef, some dairy and some very mad cows B-S-E-G-M-O
There was mad cows here and mad cows there
Really bloody pissed off mad cows everywhere.
It got really bad.
Why are are all the cows so mad?

First they fed them to each other - then they fed them sheep with scrapies
Turned them into cannibals - fed the mothers to the babies
And if they did that to you, I bet you’d get pretty mad too.

Old Man Santo had some farm – B-S-E- G-M-O

Well he’s got frankenwheat he’s got cloned sheep, lime disease and killer bees
West Nile virus, the DDT’s, Swine Fever, Chicken flu and BSE….

Old Man Santo had a farm E-I-E-I-O

So the West Nile mosquito bit the hen with chicken flu
that they fed to the mad cow that they fed to you.

(© Bob Cussen 2005)

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from Joe's Report from the Afterlife, released February 2, 2005

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