The Ballad Of The Poowong Magpies

I saw it on the news at five
About a country footy side
Found new ways to fertilise
(The Poowong Magpies)

Reporters buzzing around like flies
Folks could not beleive their eyes
At their oval, lush and nice
(The Poowong Magpies)

Rest of the country's tinder-dry
Not the Poowong Magpies
Their grass is green as Irish eyes
The Poowong, the Poowong, the Poowong Magpies

South Gippsland Water sent their spies - kind of like those MythBuster guys
Checked the levels of chlorine
Just out of interest, mind
Said, "Someone's telling porkie pies at the Poowong Magpies."

Found a secret hidden pipe to the town's water supply
Irrigation on the sly at the Poowong Magpies
(The Poowong Magpies)

Club President was surprised said:
"Which one of you guys got me in strife with the authorities?"
And a voice up the back said: "It was I, I tell no lie
But a Paul Kelly song got me inspired
It went: 'From little things, big things grow
From little things, big things grow.'
From the town's emergency CFA water
Flows a lush green oval, and no-body knows
A bit of plumbing improvise -
Who cares if massive bushfires make this town a funeral pyre?
Not the Poowong Magpies?
I did it for you guys
So we could meet out KPIs
You should be giving me high fives
At the Poowong Magpies!

I showed initiative!" - he cried -
"I grew the business, didn't I?
I had a vision, reached for the sky!"
And that's the kind of innovative thinking that can take your company to the next level
So the government awarded him "Young Businessman of the Year"
(The Poowong Magpies)
And now he owns a chain of juice bars
(The Poowong Magpies)