Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Jungle Pioneer (Viola Violar), artist - Manhattan Transfer. Album song Brasil, in the genre Date of issue: 14.11.1987
Record label: Concord, Craft
Song language: English
The Jungle Pioneer (Viola Violar) |
| Here where we stand there used to be a forest |
| A timber rising endlessly before us We cleared away that God forsaken 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 was 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 underwater |
| 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 assunder |
| 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 eliminated |
| Through it all there stands the jungle pioneer |