Plague Songs - Beavers on The River Otter / by Rich Hobbs

The beavers on The Otter got all antsy

That there weren’t otters beavering away,

Just gulls getting badgered,

And badgers getting gulled,

Dogs hounded, and I heard some hounds were dogged.

Apes monkeyed about; the monkeys aped them,

But then got foxed into ferreting around,

For a thing squirrelled away,

When they’d  piggily hogged out

Wolfing the lot, despite their weasel words.

Some groused of being goosed. What larks, they parroted,

Then took a gander craning at some shagging,

The chickens never quailing as

They crowed and ducked the cocks,

Swanning around and wondering who’d swallow.

They finally stopped sniping and then they carped no more.

What bugged them in the end made them clam up.

The reason they were crabby

Was they’d earwigged someone yakking

About beavers on The Otter getting antsy.