Water for what?

Water for what?

Did you hear the noise last night?

Did you wonder what it was?

No, this time it was not the poor blind Bilby!

and nor was it the Black-throated Finch this time!

It was the echidna, yes, our own humble hedgehog

Running around the barbed wire,

for water! 

They say it can stay without water for days

but for how many days, is the question! 

We did manage to build the mine, 

and the railway line!

Have enough coal to burn the land, 

and dance to the fiddle,

 twice many times 

for another two hundred years.

But now, dying of sheer thirst, 

what do I do to hydrate myself 

in this parched land!

That's the question! 

Five words :   Wire, Sheer ,Hedgehog, hydrate, dance