The Cat Ate The Canary

Pretty as a picture in the center of the continent
There's a country that excels, at sitting on the fence
Hiding in the shadows of a mountain range most prominent
It never joined its neighbors in shaping world events

Renown for punctuality and banking skills unmatched
It beckons to the world, "Bring us your silver and your gold
Your money's safe and sound here with no strings attached
A place where it can grow as you grow old."

The cat ate the canary - but don't lay any blame
Good old Mother Nature - made it do the deed
So why get all those bankers from Zurich
For doing pretty much the same?
In that same circumstance, tell me who'd pass up the chance
To cash in on a little bit of greed?

Meticulous and organized each page in triplicate
Enough to make a bureaucrat salivate & drool
Your parents died in Auschwitz where's the death certificate?
We're sorry but you realize rules are rules

They tried to shred the records but it came out in the press
Exposed by an employee who was fired and disgraced
"But there's so few accounts here maybe 800 at best?"
The 30,000 later found, had somehow been misplaced

The cat ate the canary - but don't lay any blame
Good old Mother Nature - made it do the deed
So why get all those bankers from Zurich
For doing pretty much the same?
With no one standing guard, why not raid the cookie jar
And cash in on a little bit of greed?

Now they put a fund together to pay anyone who's left
As honor and integrity, finally make a stand
But we all know it's just to show they're politically correct
So send your spare cash to Barbados
Or Better yet the Holy Land