Cruelty to dinosaurs (and songs about them)

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 10:09 AM

There's "Ape Call", for instance.

You want to know what I think about the sudden extinction of the Dinosaurs?

Well, even if you don't, here it is anyway.

They were around, oh, they tell me, one hundred aqnd fifty million years. We've only been around , what? at the outside, ten million. )(and thats's a lot more than the scientists are saying)

Now then, I think that the dinosuars became civilized, and caused their own extinction, just as we are apparently doing./ After all, Some of them had all the requirements, hands, walked upright, carnivores, large brain capacity, etc. . When did they become extinct, ALL OF A SUDDEN? Do you think that in that length of time there will be anything left of our civilization that could be identified as "artificial"? Not a chance.

So, I ask, , doesn't this theory deserve some consideration by the "Experts"?

I say again, "Don't trust "experts" (and that includes me) Think for yourself.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Cappuccino
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 08:19 AM

The other day, I was interviewing a professor of religious education for a feature in a Christian news magazine. He told me of the child who claimed he could prove that the Bible wasn't true - because dinosaurs weren't mentioned in Genesis! - Ian B

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Grab
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 10:46 PM

Bob, that's rather the point of the song... (quote) "I would venture instead that the humanoid head/Is where the tinier brain resides."

Graham.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 09:33 PM

G'day,

I've always thought that Mark Graham's Their Brains Were Small and They Died was an unconscionable slur on dinosaurs! It sounds like a petty, misunderstanding cheap shot at a species that dominated the planet for 150 million years - coming from a bunch of overweening apes that look like not making it to a round one million (depending on just where you draw the line in the African veldt).

I've heard Faith Petric sing the song on two visits to Australia and it is a great way gently sting an audience into something like serious thought about the way we elect leaders bent on destroying the planet they think they rule. I just can't stomach the old fashioned view that the dinosaurs' demise was their fault ... that's an unacceptable anthropomorphisation of a noble species, wiped out by cosmic forces beyond their control.

On a less serious note, local (Sydney - ex-England) singer/songwriter John Warner has knocked a few great childrens' songs about dinosaurs (as well as bunyips - the local Native Australians' mythical monsters of the swamps and forests) and other toothy beasts that delight the average bloodthirsty child. I might see if he is agreeable to one or two finding their way onto Mudcat.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: mmm1a
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 09:09 PM

I am amazed that no one has posted the song from Barney . I would but no one here can remember the words. oh well maybe someone else can supply the words . lol

mmm

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 08:50 PM

I like dinosaurs, if you go to brittania.com, it gives you lots of information about them, and pictures as well, if you like pictures of dinosaurs look at alta-vista, but not many.john

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Gareth
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 08:43 PM

The Mcleod

True

Gareth

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 08:40 PM

I had that in mind Neo. Gets me the same way.

Good song there, by Mark Graham. Never come across it before. Thanks Murray.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 08:31 PM

I figure 'Puff The Magic Dragon' comes pretty close.
Its my favorite song. Makes me cry every time. Can never finish the lyrics, I get all choked up.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 08:23 PM

The difference is that dinosaurs no doubt had some lovable characteristics, Gareth.

I am posting the Mark Graham song from the DT below (with minor errors rectified). Actually, with the release of JP3, plus President Bush's latest lurch into further nuclear insanity, the song has become quite topical once more.

THEIR BRAINS WERE SMALL AND THEY DIED
(Mark Graham)

When I sit in contemplation of the human situation
I often feel a certain sense of pride.
For our achievements are many and mighty
And the evidence cannot be denied.
But my reverie is shaken 'cause my thoughts are always taken
To a tragedy that happened long ago,
When there moved throughout the land
Beings awesome and grand
The fabulous dinosaur.

They were creatures in a manner quite reptilian
In their unique and stylish way,
And their numbers could be reckoned in the millions
But there are zero of these heroes in the world today.
They had music, art and fashion, there was dinosauric passion
And I think they'd be enraged and mortified
That when they`re mentioned today it's only to say:
Their brains were small and they died.

Perhaps some asteroid that mother earth could not avoid
Became the agent of their premature demise
Well l understand that these things can happen,
So who are we to criticize?
When we'll spend most any price to have the ultimate device
That will ensure the perfect global suicide
I would venture instead that the humanoid head
Is where the tinier brain resides.

And when we're gone our works will start to crumble
Until nothing can be found
In ten million years some other guys may stumble
On our fossils, then some assholes will begin to expound
In some scientific study to their cockroach science buddies
How the evidence can not be denied---
They were big dumb and slow, they couldn't go with the flow
Their brains were small, and they died.

If anyone wants to learn the song and can't figure the chords out from the tune in the DT, I will post the chords as well.

Murray

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Gareth
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:49 PM

OoPs Murray McLeod sumerises the British (sorry English) Conservative Party.

Well we were discussing Dinosaurs wern't we ?

Gareth

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:43 PM

Try Here and Here.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:33 PM

The Mark Graham song id in the DT. Enjoy

Murray

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:32 PM

God who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet...

It figures. On the same lines we could sing the British Grenadiers as The British Dinosaurs.

...But of all the world's great heroes,
there's none can louder roar
with a tow, row, row, row, row, row, the British Dinosaurs.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:31 PM

McGrath, there is an absolutely outstanding song by Mark Graham called "Their Brains Were Small and they Died".

Somebody will no doubt post the lyrics. If necessary I will type them out myself, I have them in my head, but not on disk.

Murray

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Gareth
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:16 PM

The McGrath of Harlow,

In a light aspect "Land of Hope and Glory" might fit

Gareth

Subject: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:11 PM

Just been on a rare trip to they cinema to see Jurassic Park III - delighted to see the notice at the end saying that they could guarantee that no harm was done to any of the animals in the film in the course of production.

Of course the only animals in the film were dinosaurs of one sort or another - but the animation was so realistic that I actually felt a bit relieved to see that. We are pretty well at a stage when it is in fact impossible ever to be sure that anything we see on the screen is authentic or not. Does George Bush really exist in the flesh?

Anyway the point of this thread is, leaving aside dragons, does anybody know any songs about dinosaurs? At least that is my point, but whether it turns out to be what the thread is actually about is now out of my hands.