Not many of you will know who Charlotte is - She's a Poet/Singer/Songwriter who is a regular at the Railway and Northwich Folk Clubs, usually on Singers' Night.

Anyway, she's written a song which you'll probably find interesting; below I've included the two emails she sent to me - simpler than trying to explain it all over again!

Hello,

Here is a song about the shambles which is being made of the current foot & mouth outbreak. The straight link between this outbreak and the BSE outbreak and the Salmonella outbreak is MAFF. Sack MAFF!

If you would like to spread the song far and wide, feel free. It can be downloaded free of charge from my web site (below). I would like to see it be of use.

Charlotte Peters Rock

If you use it, I'd be interested to be kept up to date.

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Foot & Mouth - Pie in the Sky

They're turning our pigs into pie in the sky
They're piling lives high - selling cheap
The cattle are lowering price as they fry
Mint sauce is too late for the sheep

And nobody cares to insist that they stop
Each farmer is hunted alone
Soon meat from the world will be sold in each shop
Of British Meat - never a bone

We joined the EC and it said that no more
could slaughter-house sizes be small
So we shut em all down - now we cannot ignore
Great Britain's one great slaughter-hall

The Ministry men clad in wellies and white
are killing both broadly and ill
The army has got all our lambs in it's sight
And bleating won't stop the next kill

They're bawling 'disease-free' from pre-fabs at MAFF
Well what do they think we have got
If this is disease-free it sounds such a laugh
When the Dutch vaccinate on the spot

They're putting out rugs disinfectant and soap
They're leaving each carcase to lie
Then dragging it round the whole country in hope
disease will disperse bye and bye

In Cheshire - a dairying county of note
Dead-waggons have feet sticking out
As shot cows insist on their last rite - to vote
an spread the disease without doubt

Collect all your tickets for pie in the sky
Don't stop to reflect on just why
You're eating MAFF Pie as the animals die
Just eat up your pie in the sky

The barbeque smoke's spreading high in the air
An tourism's dead as a cow
As country folk tremble and grieve and despair
Ah Stop this stupidity now

There's bonfires burning to east an to west
There's farm children's tears in the night
To north and to south - yes they're truly obsessed
Just sack MAFF - It's not very bright

You'd think Foot & Mouth was The Black Death again
instead of a mild-ish disease
blown out of proportion by Ministry men
to bring farming folk to their knees

They're turning our pigs into pie in the sky
They're piling lives high - selling cheap
The cattle are lowering price as they fry
Mint sauce is too late for the sheep

Copyright 2001 Charlotte Peters Rock [BMC] Follow-up: They're featuring my protest song, 'Foot & Mouth - Pie in the Sky' on About.com's mp3 folk programme, all week! I'm impressed.

about.com

Well I was going to garden all day yesterday, but it rained all afternoon, so I spent the time more productively, sending our emails to all and sundry - press, radio, pressure groups etc. Let me know if you hear any feedback will you?

Charlotte

Will you send it round your email list for me and ask if anyone hears any feedback?
[BMC] Email Charlotte directly with your comments, etc.

At the moment she isn't a Mudcatter, but that may well change!!