Bird Smugglers March by Jack the Sailor


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The Song Challenge: Is That A Baby Budgie In Your Pants, Or Are You Just Glad To See Me? -- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- With parrots and snakes in his luggage and bird eggs tucked into his underwear, an Austrian tourist has been arrested and charged for animal trafficking, Brazilian police said on Wednesday. "He put (the eggs) near his testicles so they would be at nest temperature," a police spokesman said. Police discovered 21 parrots, four parakeets and two snakes hidden in two large suitcases carried by Austrian botanist Johann Zillinger. hey also found Zillinger had rolled five parakeet eggs into a sock and nestled them in his underwear. "Since some of the parakeets that he had with him were newborns, we assume that some of the eggs had already hatched." Tipped off by an anonymous call, Rio de Janeiro police arrested the Austrian on Monday in front of his Copacabana beach hotel, as he climbed into a taxi on his way to catch a flight to Europe. According to police, Zillinger bought the animals in the Amazon port city of Belen and planned to take them to Austria to sell them in Europe.

Bird Smugglers March by Johan Phillipe Salsa (a/k/a Jack the Sailor)

Johan/Jack's Comments: This one is kinda disjointed but if you imagine a marching band with Carmen Miranda fruit basket hats and many brightly coloured feathers on their uniforms and a singer slipping in a phrase here and there, you will enjoy it.

Zillinger has incubating balls
Budgies make eggs that are so small
Police have searched the suitcase
They'll be hatchin' in Rio after all

Be kind to our Parakeet friends
For an egg maybe leads to another
Be smart selling parrots and snakes
They are of value to you

Make sure that the eggs they are warm
but be careful when they are hatching
Making your sac into bird food
Ain't a wise, wise thing to do.

When trafficing in contraband
Be careful that you are not captured
When smuggling pets over seas
Try to be a, little sage

A bird is worth two in the hand
But five in a sock is much better
But if customs hands you don't grease
You will end up in a cage.

So remember when you smuggle birds
To steer clear away from stool pigeons
It won't put your mind much at ease
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