SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

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.

The Bovine Bomber by Hawker
(It fits several tunes, hope you like it!)

In early ninety seven we trawled the Eastern seas
Hoping for a heavy catch and welcoming the breeze
Our lives were interrupted by an incident most rare
The details of this sorry tale my friends, with you I'll share.

CHORUS:
The Bovine Bomber's overhead, what's that! Oh HOLY COW!
That flying, mooing milk churn has struck our starboard bow!
One of us was stricken speechless - but none of us are dead
And poor old Lee Chin's stricken worst....A pat upon the head!!!

Our lives, we thought were ended but help was close at hand
We all were plucked to safety and returned unto dry land
But our sorrow wasn't over - for when we told our tale
They laughed right in our faces and they slammed us in the jail!

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We begged and we protestedthat they really ought to hear
How a flying cow had blasted us and caused us so much fear
It was only some weeks later that those bombers did come clean
About a stolen cow they'd hidden in their Russian flight machine

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They stole it in Siberia then launched into the air
Which caused the cow to rant and rage as it got quite a scare
The Russian crew - in spirits high - on Vodka I don't doubt
Had a mad cow upon their plane - they HAD to let it out!

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So if you go a fishing in the seas around Japan
Keep your eyes raised to the heavens - look for Boris, He's your man
He is called the Bovine Bomber - he's a man of great renown
And he's learned that basic lesson....What goes up, my friend, comes down!

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