Little White Rat
Music & Lyrics by David Greathouse
© 1991, Sourdough Music, ASCAP

He's just a little white rat, a furry ball of fat
Got no number got no name and they all look just the same
There ain't no shame in what we're doin'. 
No need to go and shoulder the blame
After all it's only pain for a little white rat

They drugged him up good downstairs in the lab
And they took a little sample of fur from his flab
Then they took this long, skinny metal sort of doo-dad
And poked it right through this little growth that he had
Then they gave a little jerk. Probably hurt real bad

He's just a little white rat, a furry ball of fat
Got no number got no name and they all look just the same
There ain't no shame in what we're doin'. 
No need to go and shoulder the blame
After all it's only pain for a little white rat

He's a little white rat pinging 'round in his box
I bet he'd ping a little faster with a hot-wired mouse jock
Or we could even make him do the jailhouse rock
With a few thousand volts of motivational shock
Oh yeah! Hey-hey! Why not?

He's just a little white rat, a furry ball of fat
Got no number got no name and they all look just the same
There ain't no shame in what we're doin'. 
No need to go and shoulder the blame
After all it's only pain for a little white rat

We’ll poke him and we'll prod him and we'll shave him and we'll shock him
And we'll sock him with a nominal fee
'Cause science is a costly thing, it always has been
And we're confident it always shall be
So why should we be serving it for free to a little white rat?

Come the mornin' he'll forget about that spike down in his neck
And perhaps he won't remember our exploratory train wreck
Ah, but if he does, what the heck

He's just a little white rat, a furry ball of fat
Got no number got no name and they all look just the same
There ain't no shame in what we're doin'. 
No need to go and shoulder the blame
After all it's only pain for a little white rat