MOSQUITO'S LULLABY
by Dale Crider

As I went walking one evening for pleasure An ornery mosquito came buzzingly by What nature adventure would ever be hindered By a blood-sucking creature I promised not I. I was wading through swamplands of mossy gray cypress With white ibis visions of blue heron skys But breaking the silence was this blood-sucking violence Mosquitos kept humming their dumb lullaby. (mosquito chorus-hummmbuzzzz) Twelve million young larvae feed millions of minnows And minnows feed herons in order to fly Twelve million mosquitoes to the top of the food chain But there's plenty still humming their dumb lullaby. (mosquito chorus) My itching and burning impeded my yearning For white ibis visions and blue heron skys, (And I thought) Will the pyramid of species be tumbled to pieces If a big S*M*A*S*H*E*D mosquito upon my arm dies? You know I'd rather be tickled to death when I die! (smash!)

It's a note about an Osprey, an eagle and a panther,
a note about a woodstork and a manatee;
Note about an otter and the Okaloosa darter,
sturgeons in the Suwannee and mammals in the sea.

Caracara of Kissimmee,  wasted on the prairie; 
Drainage of the wetland took the Sandhill cranes.
Crocodiles in the mangroves, Everglade kite woes,
Click, click my camera goes for the last live photo.

It's a photo of an Osprey, an eagle and a panther,
a photo of a wookstork and a manatee;
Photo of an otter and the Okaloosa darter,          
sturgeons in the Suwannee, and mammals in the sea.

(Instrumental to . . . )
Click, click my camera goes for the last live photo.


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