SLUG (Pete Ham)
[from "Acoustic" - recorded 1966? - released U.S. 2025]

Take a slug
And show you it's the same as a duck
A duck is just as beautiful
But only through your eyes
A slug is just as beautiful
'Cos you know it's still alive
Alive, alive, alive
Where you gonna draw your line?

We're talking 'bout...
We're talking 'bout slugs and ducks
But if you were blind
They'd both be alive to you
If you were blind
You wouldn't know what to do
You wouldn't know which one to kill
Though you know one of them must go

A chicken is ugly
But doesn't give you the same feelings
As a duck would give you
With the colours on its back
Know the same thing needs us all someday
If we just base our life on looks alone

Why should a slug
Get treated any worse than you or I
Or the chicken that cries when its day has come?

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan

℗ The Estate of Peter William Ham (worldwide)
All rights administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing
Phone - (212) 247 6204