Back In Judy's Jungle

These are your orders -

Seems like it's do it or die

So please read them closely

When you've read them be sure that you eat them up -

They're specially flavoured

With Burgundy, Tizer and Rye

Twelve sheets of foolscap: don't ask me why.

 

We hit the jungle

Just as it starts to monsoon:

Our maps showed no rainfall

All the boys were depressed by this circumstance

"Trust in the weather" said less agricultural men

Who gives birth to more farmhands, don't ask me why.

 

Fifteen was chosen because he was dumb,

Seven because he was blind:

I got the job because I was so mean,

While somehow appearing so kind.

Drifting about through the cauliflower trees

With a cauliflower ear for the birds,

The squadron assembled what senses they had

And this is the sound that they heard...

 

Back at headquarters,

Khaki decisions are made

File under "Futile":

That should give you its main point of reference

It's all so confusing, what with pythons and then deadly flies

But to them, it's a picnic

Don't ask me why.

 

Thirteen was chosen because of his luck,

Eleven because of his feet:

One got signed up for exceptional pluck,

Another because he was mute.

Roaming about through the gelatine swamps

With a gelatine eye on the stripes,

The squadron assembled what senses they had

And this is the sound that they heard...

 

Back in Blighty, there was you

There were milkmen every morning

But these endless shiny trees, never used to be that way.

Back in Blighty, there was you,

There were milkmen every morning

But these endless shiny trees,

Never used to be that way.

Songtext: Eno, Brian