SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

The Challenge:  From a recent National Public Radio show segment:  Mr. Patrick Wright is serving time in the George F. Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa, California for brandishing a knife at police and for illegal possession of ferrets.  In California, unlike most states in the U.S., keeping ferrets as pets is illegal. He picked up the knife when the police burst through his door during a raid to take possession of his four pet ferrets. "I like to believe I live in a free country . . . in California . . . it's like we're dealing with Stalin . . . it's completely un-American," says Mr. Wright. His fellow inmates in the county jail at first didn't believe he'd been arrested for ferret possession.  However, after they'd seen his picture in the local newspaper, they began calling him 'Ferretman'. He told the court that he is sorry about the knife incident, but still defends his right to keep ferrets. The appeal of ferrets he says, '. . . they're like little clowns . . . they're Prozac with legs."   The Challenge is to write a song welcoming Mr. Wright home from the county jail and/or defending his right to keep ferrets!


Hard Time Blues by Hyperabid
(Tune: Pick a blues – any blues)

Hyperabid's Comments:  A late addition for the sake of completeness…A small note on language...Bird is also a slang tem in the UK for a prison sentence... which can also be known as porridge... 

I'm doing hard time 
I'm doing a bird 
All because I got a rodent 
Man this is absurd

I'm doing hard time 
I'm cut to the core 
I don't like the looks I get 
From the prisoner bunked next door

I'm doing hard time 
Let me out please 
Cos the man in the cell next door 
Has asked for a striptease

I'm doing hard time 
Protecting myself well 
I keep those ferrets in my pants 
Cos I know their bite hurts like hell

Yee-Hah!

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