Coda

 

 

OTTER! OTTER! Otter!

Don’t lead cows to slaughter!

I love you, and I know

I should have told you soon-a

But you didn’t buy the dolphin-safe tuna!

 

 

BEAR! BEAR! Bear!

I’ve got something to say! Don’t be scared!

Bacon is bad! Beef is wrong!

Mad Cow disease stays with you for a time that’s long!

I want you to be mine, can’t you see?

That’s why I’m down, down on my knee!

It may not yet be legal,

but it’s better than eating a beagle,

so won’t you please marry me?

 

 

SHE WOULD have said that family is all a person needs

and it wouldn’t matter if they’re near or far.

All that matters is the lesson we must heed:

to know that this is us, that this is who we are.