Run Over a Mongoose

Well, it all started out with a problem:
There were rats in the sugar cane.
It was drivin' the Lymans and the Shipmans and the Bishops
And the Brewers and the Doles insane
So they sent off for a little creature
That had made itself a fearsome name,
So the mongoose came from India to a place were no snakes came,
But the rats hide out all day,,
And the mongoose sleeps all night
And that was the little flaw in the master plan, yeah,
So you better run over a mongoose if you can.

Well, it's faster than a snake with a temper,
And it's meaner than a wild boor hog,
It eats apapanes, amakihis, ios, o'os, nenes and
Occasional cats and dogs.
And it breeds like a rabbit in springtime,
And the springtime is always at hand,
And it travels with its mama, papa, tutu, sistah, brah,
And every hungry relative it can.
But the rats hide out all night,
And the mongoose sleeps all day,
And that was the little flaw in the master plan, yeah,
So you better run over a mongoose if you can.

Well the day surely will be comin'
When the native birds all are gone,
then you better hide your fighting cocks
And keep your poodles under locks
And keep your baby off the lawn,
'Cause the rats hide out all day,
And the mongoose sleeps all night,
And the snakes are sadly lackin' so you got face the fact that
Here the only enemy is man,
So you better run over a mongoose,
Don't you ever, ever brake for a mongoose, yeah,
You'd better run over a mongoose
If you can.