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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."
Tracking Bees by Jack the Sailor
(Tune: Yesterday)
Tracking Bees, Yes my job it is just tracking Bees
And my boss he is so hard to please
I make my bread by tracking bees
Yesterday a swarm of bees they made me run away
I was messing with the Honey tray
I should have left it where it lay
Where do bees all go? We don't know! Thats why we track
Get a transmitter and attach it to their back Oh Oh Oh
Tracking bees, I am making about twenty gees
And All the honey that I can squeeze
I make my bread by tracking bees