Termite Flatulence

[by the Bungee Jumpin’ Cows]

Topic: Tropical rainforest deforestation

Summary: Just about all that’s left after a rainforest has been cut is a huge population termites feeding on dead wood. They have the same trouble digesting cellulose in wood that people have digesting beans. This song poses the question, “which would you rather have, a rainforest or termite flatulence?

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Went down to the tropics today

Where the rainforest is being stripped away

Everyday we kill many species of plants

The only thing left is gonna be termite flatulence.

Chorus: Termite flatulence

Let the rainforest have a chance

Stop termite flatulence

People who need money cut down the trees

To raise the cows for you and me

If we don’t change what we’re doing, and change it fast

Where once was a forest, there’ll be just termites passing gas

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When the trees cut down the stumps they stay

The termites munch and help the wood decay

Tiny critters in their guts help digest cellulose parts

Like humans eating beans it makes termite...................flatulence

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Hey Man! Wo-man!

Help the rainforest stay -----Don't throw diversity away

It's not just the trees -----It's the cure to disease

If you want to do good -----Don't buy tropical wood

It's affecting us all ----- Hear the flatulence call

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You might wonder what you can do all alone

Don't eat cheap beef till the cows come home

If we all eat more Brazilian nuts

It might slow down all the termite butts... and stop flatulence

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