I Hope They Don't Hatch Now by MMario


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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.

I Hope They Don't Hatch Now by MMario
(Tune: Itches In Me Britches)

I came from out the jungle, on a hot and humid day
Went to the Rio airport, for to go along my way;
I hadn't heard of nine-one-one, while up the Amazon
Thought I'd breeze through customs, like whistle-ing a song!

Chorus:
I hope they don't hatch now,
God, I hope they don't hatch now!
I got itches in me britches,
God! I hope they don't hatch now!

They opened up my luggage, they took out all my loot;
Pawed through all my t-shirts and my sunday suit
They found the anaconda, and the crested green Macaw;
I had bought in Belen city for to sell in Austria

Chorus:

A reticulated python was a-sleeping in my trunk
And several baby monkeys, amongst the other junk
But they didn't check my thermos, so I guess they didn't find
The amazon blue tetras that I had slipped inside

Chorus:

The custom men all chuckled , when I had to strip
To see the roll of socks, when my pants I did unzip.
Let them laugh, and think I'm vain, my crotch to pad and puff
My family jewels were sharin' space with some really fancy stuff!

Chorus:

For trafficking in animals, exotic rich and rare
The authorities in Rio have sentenced me to a punishment "most quare"
The roll of socks which once I wore, with budgie eggs within
Now holds some snapping turtle eggs against my tender skin!

Chorus: x2