Lyrics

War is often fought by the humans passengers on spaceship earth But the humans passengers are very peaceful when compared to certain insects called army ants Now every time the music plays alone you do a belly dance That's right, shake your belly, and wiggle your hips Shake your knees and move your lips Now I'm gonna punch the bass button, here it goes Yup! Some insects and people live similarly In groups we call societies Thе social insects who can scare off your pants Form a militant group call army ants When army ants arе on the warpath I hope it's not on my path or your path Hundreds of thousands will follow their feet And attack almost every creature they meet The ants are deaf and almost blind But their sense of touch is most refined Each ant is part of one big scene Like your arm, or your leg, or your in between Raise one leg in the air and shake it If your foot's asleep this will wake it, yeah Now belly dance Shake it don't break it! That's right! Each group has a queen who lays the eggs While she's so fat she can hardly cross her legs She lays ten thousand a year in our nation That's enough to double her population When eggs hatch into worm-like larva who Resemble neither their mother or father The larva spins a silk cocoon that's super At this stage the kid is called a pupa Now stop, stop, stop and dance and scratch a little bit You gotta get rid of some of those ants, huh? Well the pupa leaves the cocoon behind and it's an army ant The itchy kind! [Music] Now instead of laying eggs the female mate Most of the females work and fight Some act as raiders, and some as horses And some become the aunties and nurses A male it seems does mostly one thing He mates with the queen something like a king And all the while the eggs are laid And the army continues to plunder and raid Every five weeks is a jamboree They rest for two weeks and they raid for three Now if you see an army of ants in a bunch Move out of town, you may be lunch yeah!