Listen to the Dinosaurs
Words © 2014
Tune: Listen to the Radio, © Nancy Griffith, © 1989, Universal Music

The first time I saw a raven fly upside down I thought I was having an acid flashback. But the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology clocked a raven flying upside down for almost half a mile.

Nikons are inexpensive binoculars; (David) Sibley's is the bird ID book we used in Greg Grantham's 'Birds of the North Coast' class at College of the Redwoods.

I'd be grateful if someone can come up with the name of a popular contemporary show to replace "Game of Thrones."
         

I am bound for Mendocino in the morning rain
Past coastal towns where fog is thick and tourists all complain.
Past redwood trees and fog and dinosaurs
Where would I be without the song of the dinosaurs?

        When you can't find a friend, you still got the dinosaurs
        When you can't find a friend, you still got the dinosaurs
        Dinosaurs, oh, listen to the dinosaurs.

I left a clueless, four-eyed computer nerd on Franklin Street
Staring at his Android, watching 'Game of Thrones,' wondering what's become of me.
Got my Nikon and my Sibley’s in the trunk of my Accord
And I am leaving Fort Bragg to look for dinosaurs.

CHORUS

There’s a hawk above the headlands north of Mendocino town
There’s a pelican and a cormorant and a raven upside down.
That computer nerd’ll find his Android in the garbage can
And I am leaving Fort Bragg to look for dinosaurs.

CHORUS

The ravens brought their babies to the birdbath yesterday
They splashed around, they begged for food, then they flew away.
They have scales, they have claws, like dinosaurs
And they all sing the song of the dinosaurs.

        When you can't find a friend, you still got the dinosaurs
        When you can't find a friend, you still got the dinosaurs
        Dinosaurs, oh, listen to the dinosaurs.
        Dinosaurs…