I've Got This Sinking Feeling by mousethief


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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.

I've Got This Sinking Feeling by mousethief
(Tune: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling)

You never see a cow
Falling out of an empty sky
And when you finally do,
Should you laugh or should you cry?
With the whole ocean and more, heck! (baby)
Why did it fall on, fall on our foredeck?

Chorus:
I've got this sinking feeling
Oh, this sinking feeling
I've got this sinking feeling
From a goddammed cow
Falling through our bow
Whoa-oa-oh.

When we left port this week,
We never guessed that we'd be cowed
By stupid Russian guys
Smuggling beef that was not allowed
I've got a bone to pick with Russia (baby)
Their export policies -- they can sure crush ya!

(repeat Chorus)

Russia, Russia, I'm in the hokey 'cos of you
We got hit by a milk-cow, I swear it's true!
It makes me just feel defeated (baby)
All that beefsteak, and we couldn't even eat it!

(repeat Chorus)