He Must Know

Those animals traps i readily can recall Displayed for sale there in his market stall One might have thought that the ageing bloke ought know That those rusty steel jawed things were outlawed years ago. He must know that a wild life law he break But that is the chance he is prepared to take He'll part with his traps and a few dollars gain For things known to cause death through awful pain. He'll risk the fine for people like him don't care For wildlife or neither would he feel aware Of the agony that those things put creatures through He is one of the unenlightened few. A rabbit, fox or wombat maybe Because of him will die in agony With their paw caught in the trap they suffer overnight For to be killed by cruel one with a stick in the early morning light. Those traps for sale there in his market stall For decades have been illegal and i can well recall That they were banned when i was in my prime And that's going back some thirty years in time