Never Try to Fool a Sheep

Never try to fool a sheep.
This should be made a crime,
For if you try to fool a sheep,
You'll do it every time!

Tell them you are King Canute: they'll watch you stop the waves
Tell them you're Geronimo: they'll be your sheep shape braves
Tell them you're Napoleon: they'll march to Waterloo
Tell them almost anything, and they'll believe it's true!

They'll follow you quite happily, if you're prepared to lead
If you can keep them in a flock and well supplied with feed
They stick with you in body, in woolly mind and soul
They'll never rise in mutiny or try to take control.

They like to take the simple life: make clear what they should do,
For woolly minds can wander, and their woolly bodies too.
And they are easily alarmed: to see a sheep dismayed,
Just give that sheep a problem and decisions to be made.

So if you want to play a prank, be sporting, don't be cruel
And do not play that prank upon the woolly minded fool.
He'll never learn, you'll always win and something else is true:
He'll never become brighter, but neither too will you!