Path: news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!ofa123!ofa123!Harry.Smothers!f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org From: Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org Newsgroups: alt.music.filk Subject: Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper Animals X-Sender: newtout 0.08 Feb 23 1993 Message-ID: <59283144d@ofa123.fidonet.org> Date: 26 Mar 93 19:04:00 Lines: 52 Little Fuzzy Animals (cf. "Little Fuzzy Animals" by Frank Hayes) (ref. Fuzzy Cycle books, H. Beam Piper, William Tuning) - Harry Smothers When you land on Zarathustra, you may not like what you see There are monsters behind every rock and up in every tree There are damnthings that will run you down and kites up in the skies And there's little Fuzzy animals with great big eyes. There are little Fuzzy animals, little furry animals, Little Fuzzy animals with great big eyes. Now, nearly all those monsters there should cause you many pangs For the damnthing's larger than a boar and comes with razored fangs And the giant birds up in the skies are bigger than a roc But the little Fuzzy animals can learn to talk Those little Fuzzy animals, etc,. So Jack Hollowell adopted one, and soon it was a fad For it seems that every Fuzzy wants a human Mom or Dad And though everyone predicted it would soon cause one big mess, It seems little Fuzzy children can reduce much stress It seems little Fuzzy children, etc. Now, after three or four more years, we found they weren't from here, That some minerals were lacking that devolved them every year Their mem'ries were affected; when this process was all done, They would soon be little Fuzzies in more ways than one. (etc.) We corrected the deficiencies from supplements we had Which convinced our little Fuzzy kids that we weren't all that bad We schooled them, housed them, fed them while they kept our pressure down And more little Fuzzy animals moved into town. (etc.) So the Fuzzies just got smarter, and the new ones were as cute We fed them hoksu-fusso, and we taught them how to shoot. And then a Fuzzy ship was found beneath some mining claim Now those little Fuzzy buggers have a squatters' claim! (etc.) And so we wondered gravely where these Fuzzies hailed from When a ship came in from Toka with a sight that struck us dumb -- They broke out gloves and bats, and when the Fuzzies were all through Fuzzies beat the Detroit Tigers seventeen-to-two. (etc.) (c.) 1993 by Gerald Bliss (3/26) --- T.A.G. 2.6d Standard