The Jungle Pioneer Lyrics - Singles - Manhattan Transfer

Here where we stand there used to be a forest 

A timber rising endlessly before us 

We cleared away that Godforsaken 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's 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 under water 

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 asunder 

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 uncreated 

Through it all there stands the jungle pioneer