I just wrote this and I hopes you enjoy it. BTW, I'm not from Australia--that's poetic license.

PLATYPUSES FOR PEACE
(Brad Sondahl)

I sat down to write this song,
Got a few of the verses wrong,
If I'd of done everything right,
This verse wouldn't be in it.

I wanted to get everything in,
About boys and girls, and love and sin,
And maybe to be a little unique,
Bout the duck billed platypus down in the creek

The duckbilled platypus lives on slugs
and mostly underwater bugs
It looks a fool but it's got a tool,
Poison in its back legs

But I can't waste time on the platypus
I've got to sing about peace and just
How depraved our policies are
Always marching off to war

The platypus just stays in the creek
And if the world goes to the meek
The sloth and the hedgehog will be in line
As the platypus says, "I'm here to get mine."

But back to the song, there were two kids
Deep in love, that's how they lived
I guess they were happy, they could ignore
The war that's starting up next door

And me I'd rather tune it out
The wisdom of that is in doubt
I'll probably regret it in the end,
But this is what I'll say, my friend:

The platypus lives in the mud
Living on some lowly crud
And though it has those poison glands
It seldom takes aggressive stands

Me I wish that Mr. Bush
Wasn't in so big a rush
After all a little match
Can start too big a fire.

Mr. Bush, can't you see?
The world is bigger than you or me.
The biggest kid on the block
can be the biggest fool.

Turn your twister the other way
Or there will be hell to pay
And that's all I've got to say
At least before it starts.

Here's a good page on platypuses
http://rainforest-australia.com/Platypus
Brad Sondahl, http://sondahl.com