Indicator Species

The Alligator Song

 

Everybody's getting cancer

At a geometrical rate

Maybe it's something you drank or breathed

Maybe it's something you ate

Perhaps this doesn't concern you

Hey, we've all gotta go sometime

But maybe I can tell you something

To make you change your mind

 

(Chorus)

The alligator dicks are shriveling up

Soon they'll all be through

Yeah, the alligator dicks are shrinking fast

And it will happen to you

It will happen to you, boys

It will happen to you

the alligator dicks are shriveling up

and it will happen to you

 

They're an indicator species

Like canaries in the mine

They're the first to kick the bucket

When things might otherwise seem fine

So let's be frank and honest

As the situation begs

Boys, what are you gonna do

About that thing between your legs

 

(Chorus)

 

I'm not beating around the bush

I'm making you a promise

Say goodbye to Long Dong Silver

Hello to Tiny Thomas

You can forget about Viagra

Boys, what I mean is

It's all a matter of minutiae

When you've got a half-inch penis

 

(Chorus)

 

PCBs in the water

Pesticides in the ground

Radiation in the wind

There's poison all around

So if you care about your love life

And that good old whoop-dee-doo

We've got to stop pollution, boys

That's what i'm telling you

 

(Chorus)

 

-David Rovics

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