SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

The Challenge:  This challenge was to write a song about a a report on National Public Radio that scientists in the US have made a fantastic advance in the study of honey bees -- they've caught several of the little buggers and glued diodes and antennae on their back with double-sided poster tape. "They look like hors d'oeuvres with glass toothpicks in them," said one of the researchers. Then the researchers release the honey bees and *attempt* to follow them in vans equipped with radio receivers; communicating with each other via walkie-talkies, evoking such conversations as: "He's going north." "Now he's going west." "He's going south -- nope, make that north again."

Kamikaze Bee by McGrath of Harlow

You stick me down with ticky-tack 
and put transmitters on my back
and try to follow in my track
but I'm a bee
you can't catch me.

You think you're smart, I know you're big,
But I can make you dance a jig
And squeal like a punctured pig
For I'm a bee
you can't catch me

I'm in the air, I'm on the wing,
I'm coming down to make you sing
I'm coming at you with my sting
For I'm a bee,
you can't stop me.

And when I sting you, I'll be dead,
But you'll be crying in your bed
with my sharp lesson in your head
I was a bee -
don't mess with me.
Don't mess with us
just leave us buzz! 

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