Based on this site and discussions with my friend Ted about his ornothological friends. While the song is specifically about birds that have gone extinct, it applies to our world at large, and perhaps ourselves. 

Abominominous covered this for a Coverfight 2004. It rawks!

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stylish, exotic

with limitless beauty

the ostrich and egret 

were slaughtered with creulty

society hats

yes for decrative awning

they hadn’t a chance

no, they hadn’t a warning

the eskimo curlew

and passenger pigeon

heath hen and great auk

and the labrador duck

extinct now forever

these birds, killed for feather

imagine if we

had lived responsibly

 

(c) 2003 roy walter

September 20, 2003 11:42 PM