Back In Judy's Jungle Lyrics - Singles - Brian Eno

These are your orders, seems like it's do it or die 

So please read them closely 

When you've learnt them be sure that you eat them up 

They're specially flavored with burgundy, Tizer and rye 

Twelve sheets of foolscap, don't ask me why. 

We hit the jungle just as it starts to monsoon 

Our maps showed no rainfall 

All the boys were depressed by this circumstance 

Trust in the weather to bless agricultural man 

Who gives birth to more farmhands, don't ask me why. 

Fifteen was chosen because he was dumb 

Seven because he was blind 

I got the job because I was so mean 

While somehow appearing so kind 

Drifting about through the cauliflower trees 

With a cauliflower ear for the birds 

The Squadron assembled what senses they had 

And this is the sound that they heard 

Back at headquarters khaki decisions are made 

File under 'Futile', that should give you its main point of reference 

It's all so confusing, what with pythons and then deadly flies 

But to them it's a picnic, don't ask me why. 

Thirteen was chosen because of his luck 

Eleven because of his feet 

One got signed up for exceptional pluck 

Another because he was mute 

Roaming about through the gelatin swamps 

With a gelatin eye on the stripes 

The Squadron assembled what senses they had 

And this is the sound that they heard 

Back in Blighty there was you 

There were milkmen every morning 

But/Fuck these endless shiny trees 

Never used to be that way.