“Have you heard all that nonsense that’s going on now?”
Said the Mother Hen, clucking, to Daisy the Cow.
“I was watching the TV through Farmer Giles’ door,
Oh, it makes me feel happy to be where we are!
There’s a strange orange man in a far distant land
that is shaking his wattle, he can’t understand
why he hasn't a friend in the whole big wide world,
and he says that he hates us for not being pearls
before swine - not that I have a grudge against Pigs,
I mean, did I not once allow them to dig
all around my fine hen-house before we were moved,
far away from the paddock ‘til drainage improved?
Even so, said the man on TV with a grin,
there’s a place called the Middle East where we can’t win.
And another, I think that they said was Iraq?
May the Great Chicken Spirit please send our boys back!
Oh, I tell you, old Daisy, we’re better off here
being just farmyard animals, having no fear!
And who do you reckon keeps telling us lies?
Says we’ll all end up frozen or baked into pies?
What I know now, my friend - and my sisters and brothers -
is that all Men are evil, and some more than others!