On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 12:07:40 PM UTC-7, Brenda F wrote:   
   > Anyone got the lyrics and / or chords for Eric's Bogle's Endangered Species?   
   > I've got:   
   > Forget the platypuses and those funny aardvarks   
   > Pigmy hippopotamuses and great white sharks   
   > I'm tellin' you the truth, no bull faeces   
   > If you want to know the most endangered species   
   > It's not the albatross or the humpback whale.   
   >   
   > But would love the rest of them and the chords if anyone has them.   
   > Cheers.   
   > Brenda F   
   > Scotland   
      
   Hi Brenda,   
   The lyrics are below. Would you happen to have the chords worked out?   
   Cheers,   
   Jim   
      
   ENDANGERED SPECIES -  words & music by Eric Bogle   
      
    1. Life on planet Earth is teeterin' on the brink   
    Every day more species become extinct   
    Every day it seems, we lose another link in the chain   
    Life's not a trailer it's the whole main feature   
    The outlook's bleak and it's gettin' bleaker   
    For all those poor endangered creatures who remain.   
      
    Chorus:   
    Forget the platypusses and those funny aardvarks   
    Pigmy hippopatamusses and great white sharks   
    I'm tellin' you the truth, no bull faeces   
    If you wannna know the most endangered species   
    It's not the albatross or the humpback whale   
    It's the middle-aged ineffectual,   
    unfashionably heterosexual, white Anglo-Saxon male   
    The middle-aged unrecontructable, non-tax deductable   
    white Anglo-Saxon male.   
      
    2. Back in the good old days when it took two to breed   
    We swam around the gene pool scattering our seed   
    Now IVF and sperm banks have removed the need to serve or volley   
    We used to be the hunters and providers   
    Knockin' off mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers   
    Now your wife shops at Foodland   
    and you walk beside her with the trolley   
    CH   
    Forget the gorillas and the chimpanzees   
    Those scaly armadillos, sea-grass munchin' manatees   
    I'm tellin' you the truth, you know that it's real   
    The next one to fall from evolution's wheel   
    Is not the green-tree frog or the giant land snail   
    It's the middle-aged unathletic, flabby and pathetic   
    white Anglo-Saxon male   
    The middle-aged inexplicable, daggy and despicable   
    white Anglo-Saxon male.   
      
    3. You ain't worth savin', got no style, no cachet   
    But if bad taste comes back into fashion one day   
    They got your germ plasm locked away in some laboratory   
    Goodbye you dinosaur a brave new world calls   
    not long now till the curtain falls   
    You lost the race when you lost your balls - end of story.   
    CH   
    Forget the iguanas, and the orang-utans   
    Those cuddly koalas and the mighty elephants   
    I'm tellin' you the truth, you know it's no lie   
    PUt your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye   
    You got the future of a fart in a force ten gale   
    You middle-aged introspectual, twice-a-month erectual   
    white Anglo-Saxon male   
    You middle-aged unrootable, unstable and unsuitable,   
    white Anglo-Saxon male   
    Forget about the cheetahs and the giraffes   
    Those laughin' hyenas, they're not a lot of laughs   
    Don't worry 'bout the wildebeeste or the kangaroos   
    Remember that to some at least no gnus can be good gnus   
    In the battle for survival someone has to fail   
    It's the middle-aged undesirable, use use-by-date expirable,   
    white Anglo-Saxon male   
    The middle-aged indefensible, obsolete, dispensable,   
    white Anglo-Saxon male.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)