Ewwww, it's so disgusting,
Ewwww, it's so disgusting,
Tuberculosis, horsey meat,
And hair and hooves and tripe and teeth,
And a worker, name was Pete,
These are all inside your meat,
Sinclair's The Jungle's meant to show,
Socialism's the way to go,
But meat and worker conditions though,
Is all that you have to know,
In The Jungle, Sinclair's The Jungle,
Chicago's "Packingtown,"
In The Jungle, Sinclair's The Jungle,
It's the worst place around,
The novel will explain to ya,
Jurgis from Lithuania,
Is cheated, milked, and tainted from,
Capitalist America,
Sinclair's The Jungle's meant to show,
Socialism's the way to go,
But meat and worker conditions though,
Is all that you have to know,
When the public, the appalled public,
Read it, they were aghast,
When the President, Teddy the President,
Read it, he acted fast,
Though he thought Sinclair's a nut,
And a socialist crackpot,
After reading, Roosevelt thought,
Conditions like this must be fought,
This brought the Meat Inspection Act,
Pure Food and Drug on top of that,
The muckraker's impact today,
Can be seen in the FDA,
Sinclair would go on to complain,
"This worked to the meat packer's gain,"
He meant to hit the public's heart,
But they didn't read that part!