Gone For Good

 

 

 

 

An old brown cow was sittin’ in her pasture

     eating grass

When she looked down at the ground, she saw a

     black bug walkin’ past.

She watched him push and struggle with that

     little twig he’d found

Then she raised her hoof and mashed that bug,

     (SQUISH!) into the ground!

 

Cho: I can’t find a reason why some of us must die

And others live and feel bad, maybe God knows why,

But I can’t find a reason, if I only understood,

Then I wouldn’t be so angry, hey, that bug (cow) is

     gone for good!!

(Last time: When you’re gone, you’re gone for good!)

 

Well later in the afternoon that cow went home

     to eat

And the Farmer packed her friends and her into a

     truck out on the street

He’d decided to quit milkin’ cows and start t’raisin’

     ducks

Well Old MacDonald had a cow, now she’s a

     Cheeseburger Deluxe!

Chorus

 

Now Old MacDonald choked to death on one

     hard-boiled duck egg

And the duck who laid it ended up as “Roasted Duck

     With Nutmeg!”

And the chef who roasted up that duck stepped on

     an avocado

Slipped underneath a tour bus bound for

     southern Colorado!

 

The driver’s name was Alice, and she didn’t

     even stop

They caught-up with her in Dallas eating pancakes

     with a cop,

He was a foolish guy named Jerry, who never

     carried guns

He’d fed her boysenberry syrup and he caught her

     with the runs!

 

When he took her down to book her at the nearest

     precinct house

Well next door there, all the local circus elephants,

     they got frightened by this mouse,

And they stampeded on the squad car, didn’t

     even hurt their feet!

But Jerry, Alice and the car were tramped into

     the street!

 

And the mouse who scared them elephants, he gave

     one little shrug,

And two weeks later he died when he was bitten

     by a bug

Who was the thirty-second cousin of that bug killed

     by that cow!

If it wasn’t for that bug, maybe they’d all still

     be here now!

Chorus

 

Written by Peter Alsop, © 1985, Moose School Music (BMI)

On Fan Club Favorites and Songs On Loss & Grief – www.peteralsop.com