26 Extinction

EXTINCTION I didn’t do it, it wasn’t my fault Don’t blame me, don’t take me court I didn’t slaughter those wretched beasts To load my table with a tasty feast Tasmanian Tiger Wolf alone in the zoo Pacing its cage with nothing to do Just twenty-five cents the hunters were paid For each wolf they killed – big money they made… I didn’t do it, it wasn’t my fault Don’t blame me, don’t take me court I didn’t slaughter those wretched beasts To load my table with a tasty feast The Passenger Pigeon of the USA Gathered in flocks of fifty million they say Most numerous bird in the history of Earth By deforestation and hunting was cursed I didn’t do it, it wasn’t my fault Don’t blame me, don’t take me court I didn’t slaughter those wretched beasts To load my table with a tasty feast The innocent Dodo never ran away When sailors and dogs and rats came to stay This pigeon as big as a goose could not fly For lunch and for dinner those poor Dodos died I didn’t do it, it wasn’t my fault Don’t blame me, don’t take me court I didn’t slaughter those wretched beasts To load my table with a ta….sty… feast……. By pupils of Kenton School working with David Haines September 2004