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 Kamikaze Cow by Lonesome EJ

After 40 days of fishing, I was lying in my bunk
Full of bread and haddock and the saki that I'd drunk
With no fresh beef since we left port, I dreamed of t-bone steaks
Of chops and ribs and hamburger, instead of cold rice cakes
These prayers were all unspoken, no words had left my throat
But the Buddha heard me anyway and drpped a cow upon my boat

Chorus:
Of all the things that I have seen, the oddest one somehow
was this unexpected heifer - the Kamikaze Cow
Like a bolt of lightning from above that through our hull did plow
Two sides of beef that brought us grief - the Kamikaze Cow

There was roundsteak on the quarter deck, in the cabin New York Strip
Steak Tartare in the lifeboats, on the poop deck fresh Beef Tips
The Captain hung on for his life to a floating Porterhouse
While the First Mate scanned the Heavens for more descending cows

(Chorus)

So do not pray for foolish things; you'll have cause to regret it
Be careful what you wish for - the chances are you'll get it
Content yourself with daily joys, the simple things are sweet!
And always keep a wary eye, for you don't know what you'll meat

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