Find Hungry Bats

from Chiroptera by Dots and Lines

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With thanks to Akira Kurosawa for the inspiration, and Dr. Alyson Brokaw for a Mexican free-tailed bat call recording I used as a reference for the ending.

Featured species: Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)

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The bugs, they come back every year and eat up all our grain
To keep our little town afloat, our harvest must remain

The pattern keeps repeating where they come, they eat, they leave
And though we try to fend them off, we never get reprieve

We need someone to help us, but we can't afford a lot
They'll need to work for room and board, as that's all that we've got

So now I'm off to find somebody who might take this deal
Help defend our little town and get a hearty meal

A wise person told me, "Find hungry bats"

Our new friends travel toward us past the rivers and the trees
A line of hungry heroes moving onward steadily

There was no warm reception as the townsfolk were all scared
The new arrivals found no trust, so loudly I declared

"They're here to help us stop the bugs from taking all our food away
It's time that we learn how to keep those nasty pests at bay

I promised I would find someone to help us take a stand
I'll host all seven dozen of them here upon my land"

A wise person told me, "Find hungry bats"

Armed with teeth and grabby feet and riding on the air
These fighters were a deadly force to any bugs who'd dare

To try us now we've got ourselves a band of hungry bats
They'll find themselves all fleeing like the mice do from the cats

The battle must begin as darkness settles on the sky
And every night above the fields, the fastest wings do fly

They feast on many thousands each until their flight is through
Our little town has won the fight, and so our friends have too
And so our friends have too

A wise person told me, "Find hungry bats"
Find hungry bats
Find hungry bats

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from Chiroptera, released October 24, 2023

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