Hamburger in the Sky by Trapper


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The Song Challenge: This idea was suggested by our own DaveO, and many thanks to him for it! And for your efforts this time, a special Golden Cow Chip with Sorcha's Gilded Feblueberry Award has been designed. Comin' In On A Hoof And A Prayer -- Early in 1997, the dazed crew of a Japanese Trawler was plucked out of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships, shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes. They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold, and hastily taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a now rampaging cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

Hamburger in the Sky by Trapper
(Tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky)

While trawling for some shrimp upon one cold and windy day,
Katsumi and Chomei and I were working for our pay
When all at once above us a red-eyed cow we saw,
A fallin' through the ragged sky, and heading for our prawn.

The forecast was clear and sunny, there was not a cloud in sight
This bovine precipitation gave us quite a fright
He gave his final bellow as he crashed right through our hull
And floundering, our captain cried, "What a lot of bull..."

They rescued us and jailed us, until they told us how
A Russian plane above us had jettisoned the cow
And now when we're out drinking, we tell all inside the bar
How instead of landing sushi, we wound up with steak tartare...