Overview
A song about the most feared creature in OHOL – The Berry-gobbling Famine Inducer, aka the Gobble-un!
Introduction
If you’ve seen my other songs, you know my mind goes strange places. (I probably shouldn’t have bought it that lifetime bus pass.) Last night the kid asked if I was going to write a song cussing out the berry-gobblers I rant about sometimes… and this is the result. (No actual cursing involved.)
Gobble-uns!
(An original song by Sean Roberts aka Starknight_One aka starkn1ght)
You see them come into the town
Out from the wild, their food bar down
But do they eat the tasty stew?
That’s not what they know how to do
They run straight to the berry fields
All shining with their full-grown yields
All berries stuffed into their gobs
Before they run back to their jobs
Now berries bright are tasty, true
But they don’t fill you up like stew
Or eat a piece of yummy pie
And send your spirit to the sky
Farm-to-table is very nice
But please just take some good advice
One berry will keep you alive
It gives you time to learn to thrive
Listen well, my favorite sons:
Beware of all the gobble-uns!
They eat your berries, carrots too
Ignoring all the pies and stew
My child, it’s sad, they’re so asleep
Full-grown adults eating like sheep
So eat some pie, and don’t be shunned
Don’t turn into a gobble-un
Grab berry two and drop it down
Into the bowl that is around
Now pick it up, and eat the bowl
And get some Yum to save your soul
Now you have time to find some stew
A popcorn bowl, sauerkraut too
Raw food for Yum or in a pinch
I hope you don’t think I’m a grinch…
When adults strip the berry fields
Kids will die without those yields
You should be eating properly
Things bigger than just berries
I’ve told you about pie and stew
Sauerkraut and popcorn too
Burritos, tacos, even bread
And mangoes with their skin so red
Listen well, my favorite sons:
Beware of all the gobble-uns!
They eat your berries, carrots too
Ignoring all the pies and stew
My child, it’s sad, they’re so asleep
Full-grown adults eating like sheep
So eat some pie, and don’t be shunned
Don’t turn into a gobble-un
Listen well, my children…
No-one likes a gobble-un!
Outro
Well, not a farming song this time, but a farming-related song. This is mainly because it makes me cringe to see an adult run into camp and eat an entire bush of berries when there’s stew and pies around…