Serengeti Blues

Across the green Serengeti land, don't you know A big road is being built to carry the filth O where will the wide beasts now go, ever go Shall we speak, shall we speak or die in guilt? Cho. O mother, I cannot sleep Don't you know night and is just the same I drink my tears as I weep I drink my tears as I weep You got a new man, and it is such a shame He can't to us a promise keep Papa, I can't sleep This man does not love's promise keep Serengeti, the eternal Eden, is all we creatures know But the big trucks soon will be killing there And no longer a river of antelope will flow, will flow While the lions and deer disappear, disappear O my green Serengeti, I am weeping for you, for you I am begging the world to forbid your death I am begging the world to march with a rage so true O sweet sanctuary, I am sad, sad with regret How can I be silent when I hear her cry, do you hear The muffled sounds of the strangling rape The vampire needs her blood for a cell phone vein, beware For twitter is silent while our mother is raped [They are about to mine the Serengeti, the largest animal sanctuary in Tanzania, for minerals to make cell phones. They have began the building of a commercial freeway through its center for trucks. Poets, nature lovers, ecologists, Christians cannot know this and do nothing ... every Congressman must be implored, every news paper editor must be solicited, it is our own life we are fighting for. Protect the Serengeti!]