The Boxers by mousethief


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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.

The Boxers by mousethief
(With apologies to Paul Simon)

I am just a smuggler on the lazy Amazon
I have filled all of my luggage
With mynah birds and cockateels and Parakeets
All's going well! Still a man knows it's a dangerous job
And I could soon catch hell, la la la

When I left my home in Austria, I was headed for Brazil
In the company of strangers, in the quiet of a transatlantic jumbo-jet
Laying low, seeking out the fancy feathers
I could sell for lotsa dough
Looking for the birds to smuggle to my home

Ly-la-ly (etc)

Asking only smuggler's wages I come looking for a job but I get no offers
So I set to work bird-napping on the Amazon
Jammas on,
I stick bird-eggs in my skivvies where they find some comfort there
Getting heat from being nestled in my underwear.

Ly-la-ly (etc)

Now with bird eggs in my boxers and my luggage full of birds
And I carry their reminder on every glove and shirt-sleeve
Where they shat on me till I cried out
In my anger and my rage, "Just you wait, bird! Just you wait, bird!
You will be in a cage!
Then the eggs hatch and start pecking at my nuts.

Ly-la-ly (etc)

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