Mouseland (1980)

[Music] it's a story of a place called mouseland mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played and were born and died and they lived much as you and I do they even had a parliament and every four years they had an election used to walk to the polls and cast their ballot some of them even got a ride to the poll got a ride for the next four years afterwards too just like you and me and every time on Election Day all the little mice used to go to The Ballot Box and they used to elect the government a government made up of big fat black cats now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats you just look at the history of Canada for the last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are [Applause] now I'm not saying anything against the cats they were nice fellows they conducted the government with dignity they passed good laws that is laws that were good for cats but the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice one of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds so that cat could get his breakfast without too much physical effort all the laws were good laws for cats but all they were hard on the mice and life was getting harder and harder and when the mice couldn't put up with it anymore they decided something had to be done about it so they went and masked to the polls they voted the black cats out they put in the white [Applause] cats now [Applause] they the white cats the white cats had put up a terrific campaign they said all that mouseland needs is more Vision they said the trouble with Mouse land is those round mouse holes we've got if you put us in we'll establish Square Mouse holes and they did and the square Mouse holes were twice as big as the round mouse so and now the cat could get both his paws in and life was tougher than ever and when they couldn't take that anymore they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again then they went back to the white cats and then to the black cats they even tried half black cats and half white cats [Applause] and they call that [Applause] Coalition they even got one government made up of cats with spots on them they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but they ate like a cat you see my friends the trouble wasn't with the color of the cats the trouble was that they were cats and because they were cats they naturally looked after cats instead of mice presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea my friends watch out for the little fellow with an idea and he said to the M look fellas why do we keep on electing a government made up of cash why don't we elect the government made up of mice all these C he's a bulli lock them [Applause] up so they put him in jail but I want to remind you do that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea [Music]