Dead Manatee

There's a dead manatee under that cypress tree, and that raccoon grabbed his little chest and died

There's a dead rattlesnake, fish bobbing in the lake, and a lot of birds are just too sick to fly

There's a poison poison toad lying flattened on the road, and a bloated possum rotting in the clover

It really is a shame Florida just ain't the same ever since the Yankees moved in and took over

You know what used to be a beach is now completely out of reach, ever since the condos covered up the land

The iguanas are all gone, concrete's replaced the lawns, and the seagulls are dropping on the sand

Where you used to smell salt air, now there's suntan oil to spare, and you almost never hear a southern drawl

It isn't hard to tell that the whole state's gone to hell, the developers have sacrificed us all