©Ed Pickford mcps/prs

               Heard a man on my T.V.

Say, “We gotta save all the energy

The oil and coal are getting’ low

And the fast reactor is slow.”

Gave a little scream-gave a little cry

Looked like we were fixin’ to die

Heard a voice –it was my hamster Sid

These were the words he said.

“You may be human but you are dumb

There’s no need to sit their glum

I turn my wheel all through the night

That energy could give you light. …………( chorus )  

A hamster wheel and elastic band

Makes the pylons sing all over this land

When he jumps on his wheel and he says, “Go.”

You ought to see those electrons flow.

He eats seeds from a sunflower flower

He makes hamsto-electric power

It’s good for the ecology

It’s high on ergs and pollution free.  ……( chorus )

My hamster pal and the food he ate

Saved the world from its fate

The day he died young Tony Blair

Went on T.V. to declare

( spoken ) One crocus does not make a spring, nor can one voice a duet sing - yet from this small green hamster shoot let this simple thought take root. Tomorrow is today postponed, and every sin must be atoned. Let how you live - not how you die – be the measure of each guy so love the Earth and love your kids and let us all be hamster Sid-s.”

(last verse)

In the Hamster Hall of Fame

Stands a wheel with Sidney’s name

At night when no one is around

They say the wheel goes round and round.                                                                                                                                               [Sounds of unearthly squeaking and into last chorus]