Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Jack Carney, Sheep Farmer


The minute the lamb drops,
There you are on your four-wheeler;
You've got to scoop it up
Before the foxes come.

Them foxes are bastards.
They'll kill as soon as they'll blink.
And you can't even fuckin' shoot em;
They're protected now.

There's a fella comes up from Dingle –
At night, you know, on the quiet –
With a rifle and a big spotlight
And he pumps off a few.

Without that, there'd be no sheep farms.
The government don't give a shit.
We're up all night through March and April –
Me, the brother, and me two boys –
Out in the dark with our four-wheelers,
Keeping the lambs from Mister Fox,

And we can't even shoot the fuckers.
How's that for a policy?

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