We never had it so good-heigh-de-ho.
When the cats who had swallowed the geckoes lay dying,
We crawled in by thousands from forests outlying.
When the farmers saw us, they raised and angry cry:
“Rats bring plague! Fly in help, or we will surely die.
Help us, men of science, help us kill the rats;
For the DDT you sprayed has killed off all our cats!”
“Borneo for rent,” we sang. “Inquire, please, within.
When the cats die off from DDT, we rats-move-in.”
And then the helicopters came...
