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THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER lyrics : "The Jungle Pioneer"

(Music by Milton Nascimento & Marcio Borges; Lyrics by Brock
Walsh)
Here where we stand there used to be a forest

A timber rising endlessly before us
We cleared away that God forsaken jungle
And in return the Indians adore us


What was mud now is a highway
Reaching wide into a prairie

Horses run -- cattle are grazing
You would swear it was Oklahoma


Day by day dark is illuminated
God's mistake altered and uncreated
Wrong's made right left to the jungle pioneer


See in the field my little son and daughter
Not long ago that ground was underwater

Now you can see them walking with the cattle
Singing them songs before they go to slaughter


There are those who would appose us
Crying out, "God save the planet"
Bleeding hearts can't turn $$#under

This the eighth and final wonder

Day by day this land is liberated

God's mistake altered and uncreated
Wrong's made right left to the jungle pioneer


Saddle up giddy up and ride on out of here
We got a mile of burning to do today
Get along now gonna need you out of here

We got a pile of earning to do today

Down in Brazil there used to be a forest

Now in it's place a crazy wind is whistling
As every tree was falling in the forest
It made a sound but nobody was listening


When the last is buried under
What has been will be no longer

No matter what man may endeavor
Eden's gate closes forever


Day by day life is eliminated
God's own work altered and eliminated
Through it all there stands the jungle pioneer

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