Oi Polloi je skotská punková kapela, která vznikla někdy na počátku 80tých let. Původně to byl skinheads-band s textama o chlastu, punks&skins unity, riots, ale už v týhle době měli taky pár písní o právech zvířat. Časem se jejich názory...
I asked them why the wilderness had to die
Their replay to me showed the reason was naked greed.
Mass action could stop them
But you've got to start it
World Park status for the Antarctica.
They rape and plunder whatever they find
Sea polluted and minerals mined.
Poisoned animals slowly die
As they suck Antarctica dry.
Cumoan Chris
Gie it laldy ya raj!!
And the factory ships set sail
A death sentence for the whale
And as the sea turns to red
Yet more life blood is shed.
Park proposals are greeted
With mirth by those who rape our Earth
So will you really just stand by
And watch the last great wilderness die?
Antarctica - twelve million square kilometers
Of the last almost untouched wilderness
Left on Earth.
It is thus vital that it is protected from greed of those
Who would turn it into a vast open-cast mineral mine.
Unchallenged, such commercial exploitation
Will simply kill this continent.
Toxic waste will be pumped into the seas
(as the Americans are already doing
at their base at McMurdo Sound)
Rubbish will be simply thrown away
And the inevitable oil disasters similary
To the Exxon Valdez in Alaska will ruin the coastal ecology.
Then, goverments and multinationals will move on, Leaving it poisoned and scarred
Only one thing stands in their way - You.
