Song: Insect Nation
Artist: Bill Bailey
Album: Cosmic Jam
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We must stop the destruction of the planet
We need trees not “fact’rees”
Otherwise the Creatures of the Earth will take back what’s rightfully theirs
You know of whom I speak
They are listening
They have ears
Some of them have ears on their knees
They wise rise up and reclaim this world
They [E5/F]will
take [E5/F]us
and [E5/F]they’ll
make [E5/F]us
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
The
locust squats u
pon the leaf,
he’s just biding his
time
The
human world that
he surveys, he thinks “
one day all this will be
[E5/F]
[E5/F]
[E5/F]
[E5/F]
mi- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -ine
The
spiders are not
insects but in the
war they will side with the
insects
Trai[E5/F]tors
trai[E5/F]tors,
spi[E5/F]der
trai[E5/F]tors,
they’ll [E5/F]be –
tray [E5/F]us
and [E5/F]they’ll
make [E5/F]us
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation
Where did we all go wrong?
The insects used to be our
brothers
Along came
pesticide
and on that day out
friendship died
And
pouring boiling water down ants nests couldn’t have he
lped
We have betrayed the trust
of the bee and locust
Out there are some angry bugs
, and too many salted slugs
When will the madness end?
We can find if we look inside a
different world we thought we’d lost but
If we look we’re sure to find it,
in the place we thought it was. It
must be here it’s here somewhere I
only put it down just now, a
kind of world that’s not unkind but
if we look we’re sure to find it
There it is no that’s not it, just behind the.. next one down.. keep on
going.. behind the pringles.. next shelf down.. that’s it.
then I know that I’ll be free ’cause I’ll have found the insect in
me.
The
insect in
me
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What about the worms?
They’re eyeing up your car, yeah.
How could a worm drive a car you say?
Two on the pedals, two on the wheel
And one on the A to Z
It could happen!
What about the crabs?
I forgot about them, sideways quizlings.
They [E5/F]will
take [E5/F]us
and [E5/F]they’ll
make [E5/F]us
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Nation Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hum
an
Slaves
In an Insect
Na- -
a-
-a-
tion