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"The Creatures have a Secret"

	The True Story behind "All Died Out"	995 Tage her
	All Died Out (The Song of the Passenger Pigeon) The most amazing thing about the extinct Passenger Pigeon is that, not all that long ago, they were the most common birds in the whole world. There were literally billions of them living in North East America… until, that is, the arrival of men, especially men with guns. The Rockford’s Rock Opera song, “All Died Out” tells the story of the Passenger Pigeon – in the hope that it’s sad tale will be an important lesson learned for all of us. Passenger Pigeons were sleek, speedy birds. In the 1800’s, the vast flocks of Passenger Pigeons were legendary, the birds flew in such millions and millions that they blacken out the sky and their droppings fell like snow. At this time for many poor Americans their whole diet consisted of Passenger Pigeon! However, such was the scale of their numbers that Passenger Pigeons were hunted mercilessly. (In one hunting competition the winner notched up a tally of 30,000 dead birds (that’s right 30,000…). However, by the late 1800’s numbers were dwindling and the last wild flock was wiped out in a single day in 1893. It seems that, once depleted, Passenger Pigeons were simply not able to recover their numbers. The last wild bird was shot by a little boy in 1900 and the last few specimens lived on in American zoos until they finally all died out on 1st September 1914. (If you’d like to know more about the Passenger Pigeon and many other wonderful extinct animals, we recommend ‘A Gap in Nature’ by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten (Heinemann) – a wonderful, beautifully illustrated book that has been a great inspiration to us in the creation of Rockford’s Rock Opera.) Way back in the fall of ‘93 We took to the skies my folks an’me A prettier sight you could not see ‘Till high in the air They poured a sea of fire! All died out Another lesson learned But now the lesson’s learned I may be free But they won’t see me! Anymore… No picking the corn way out on the plain No filling the skies, no dance in the rain No passenger left All washed down the drain Ain’t nothing that’s left Untouched by this reign of fire! All died out Another lesson learned But now the lesson’s learned I may be free But they won’t see me! All died out Another lesson learned But now the lesson’s learned I may be free But they won’t see me! Repeat Chorus Yer, we’re all died out Yer, we’re all cried out…
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