Give us the Wisdom of Jim Cheney

(Sung to "Because" by the Dave Clark Five)

(In honor of Professor Jim Cheney's Retirement 6/03)

He writes on environmental ethics
with a Native insight on it too--
he writes, he writes from feminist perspective
because, because it might ring true!

Retired now, it's students who lose--
who else could help us think
but doesn't make us snooze?

Give us the wisdom of Jim Cheney,
from pen or lips it's smooth--
Give us, give us, his form of gentle rigor,
because, because it might ring true. . .

Give us the wisdom of Jim Cheney,
from pen or lips it's smooth--
Give us, give us, his form of gentle rigor,
because, because it might ring true!

Because, because it might ring true!