SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

The Song Challenge:   Here's a little story that Amos sent in for your 'songifying' enjoyment -- He calls it:  "If I Gave Myself To You . . ."  COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Sri Lankan man was seriously injured when he jumped naked into a lions' den at the national zoo, apparently offering himself up as a feast for the big cats, officials said Monday.  "The man...had written a letter before jumping into the enclosure saying he wanted to give 'alms' to the lions," said Senarath Gunasena, director of the National Zoological Gardens in the Colombo suburb of Dehiwala.  The man survived but the three lions in the den bit off parts of his arms, legs, chest and groin area. The incident occurred Sunday when the zoo was full of visitors.  The man was rescued by zoo staff and onlookers who beat garbage cans to frighten the lions away and took him to a nearby hospital where he was in intensive care. Sri Lanka's majority Buddhist population believes that giving alms can earn merit for future incarnations.


Barenaked Buddhist by Bardford
(To the tune of Luckenbach Texas -- written by Chips Morman, sung by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, and any MOR/country/legion/wedding band that I've ever seen or been a part of in the neck of the woods where I grew up)

Bardford's Comments:  I had been sitting under a tree waiting for enlightenment.  Turns out all I had to do was open up this thread to find the above verses. Laughter is a worthy path, and you folks tend the path well.

There're only two things in life that make it worth doin'
It's teeth sharpened up good and fence-jumpin' humans
I don't need my mane in the marquee lights
I got my jaws and a jumper in my sights.
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of lunch

Chorus:
Let's eat a barenaked Buddhist on his way to Nirvana through the zoo
His transcendental quest has got us feeding
Like our cousins back in the jungle do
But he's a scrawny old fella, with crunchy patellas
And hardly no meat on his frame, toss him back over the cage
I ain't eating vegan again

Oh, baby it's not as interesting
As chewing on some other things and anyway
These fibii are choking me
And you could bite on that gristly thigh all day
We been so busy spitting up all those bones
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of lunch

Let's eat a barenaked Buddhist on his way to Nirvana through the zoo
His transcendental quest has got us feeding
Like our cousins back in the jungle do
But he's a scrawny old fella, with crunchy patellas
And hardly no meat on his frame, toss him back over the cage
I ain't eating vegan again

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