A few years back when I got my fishin license a booklet was included about the dangers of eating too many fish from Great Lakes area. Anyway, the pamplet inspired this song ~ sung to the tune of the Oyster Song from the Clearwater Album. "you can't eat the oysters....." etc.

We all know Lake Michigan is a fishermans' dream,
Teaming with fishes a paradise it may seem,
But they're filled with chemicals from arsenic to lead,
If it gets in your system you could end up dead.

CHORUS:
Oh you can't eat the lake trout that live in Lake Michigan,
You can't eat the lake trout in Grand Traverse Bay
They're filled with DDT, PBB'S, PCB'S
If I were a lake trout I'd get out today.

Beautiful Lake Superior seems pretty clean,
But the asbestos fibers are too small to be seen,
It gets in the water, it gets in the fish,
It could even end up on your chaffing dish. (CHORUS)

Blue Lake Huron is even mush worse,
And Saginaw Bay is a chemical curse,
Sea Gulls that fly there, die there they say,
If I were a sea gull I fly far away. (CHORUS)

Poor Lake Erie can't take it no more,
With all of those factories lining her shore,
What they are doing at Fermi, no one really knows,
But don't get caught down wind if she ever blows. (CHORUS)

Lake Ontario is at the end of the chain,
With all of those cities she's feeling the strain,
People in Toronto must stay on the land,
Cause swimming in the water has already been banned (CHORUS)

Cap't Bob