Cruelty to dinosaurs (and songs about them)

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,johngeary23
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 12:19 AM

does anyone know the chords to "their brains we're small and then they died"?

the song is so cool, but there are soem funny chords in there i cant figure out.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Darowyn
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 09:07 AM

"Look at me I'm a dinosaur.
I stomp around a bit,
Then I stomp around some more.
People look at me and they say "OH LOR!"
Here comes a dinosaur"

From a book of kids' songs by Vo Fletcher- and there are appropriate actions to go with the verses.

Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 09:35 AM

Can't remember where this one comes from, but this kid's song is a lot of fun:


THE PREHISTORIC ANIMAL BRIGADE

Listen to the chorus of the brontosaurus
And the stegosaurus, down by the swamp
Here comes mammoth, tusks all curly
Joins the hurly-burly, STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!

What a noise (what a noise)
It's the boys (it's the boys)
Of the prehistoric animal brigade!

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 12:56 PM

'..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...'

Years ago I watched a program on how the first Jurassic Park was made. The dinosaurs were indeed simulations of some kind, but the sounds they made were produced by real animals. They made recordings of various animal calls and combined them to make them more powerful and exotic. I believe one sound combined the rattle of a snake with the call of a large owl.

Thus animals were involved in the making of the film, but only in an auditory way.

I watched this at my mother's house. She had two young kittens that were not very tame. After the demonstration of animal noises, I glanced down and realized that both kittens had leapt into my lap and were making themselves as small as possible. They were afraid of the animals they had heard.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:12 PM

Leeneia - A friend of mine moved to a house up above the local zoo. Their housecat was just starting to feel it's way around the new house when it was feeding time at the zoo below and some of the large cats started to roar. It took a couple of days for the housecat to come out from under the sofa.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 05:09 PM

Way upthread, Bob Bolton mentioned the work of John Warner. John's best-known dinosaur song is Harley Dinosaur. The lyrics are on John's website at http://www.folkjohnwarner.com/lyrics.htm#harleydinosaur

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:42 PM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ACKZ10BrSwk&feature=related

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:44 PM

..and how he'd often perform it to apreciative audiences


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KSt1u_UE0

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:31 PM

Yes, but when he's crawling around on the floor he's off mic.

I did come up with some Jurassic verses for "Martin Said to His Man":

I saw a Stegosaurus stagger through the door...
Have one glass and crash through the floor...

I saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex...
When there was no Guiness, he was in a vex...

I saw a Pteradactyle with a smile...
Say: "After a while crocodile!"...

I saw a Triceratops in his shop...
Hard at work fermenting hops...

I saw a Brontosaurus with a thesaurus...
Searching for the ultimate chorus --
I have well drunken and who's the fool now?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Tootler
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:51 PM

In our house we get very concerned about continual references to "War on Ptera" and we believe the govt. to be Pteraists.

Such non PC behaviour should not be tolerated and the dinosaur rights commission should take action.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:55 PM

Hiccup Charlie?

And not one mention of Barney the Purple Dinosaur and his insipidly cute friends.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:53 PM

Sinsull-

Certainly someone has dealt with Barney, haven't they?

Of course here in Maine we have the descendants of dinosaurs marching around our woods and fields, the wild turkeys!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:13 AM

Interested to hear about the dinosaur noises in Jurassic park. I'm not surprised they used an owl call- the other night I heard an owl in the park near my home and had to stop to check it wasn't someone being murdered!

Incidentally, a few years back I was commissioned to write and record a piece of music for a youth dance company on the theme of evolution, which called for various animal noises. Bees, birds, ducks, dogs, lions, no problem, but I had to do my best "raaaaagghh! when it came to dinosaurs!

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 10:46 AM

That's an interesting story, Jonny. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: GUEST,Tula
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 04:44 AM

Please, I need in the "When a dinosaur's feeling hungry..." Give me please on the e-mail: [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 08:33 AM

Tula-

Any other clues such as where you might have heard this ditty?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Cruelty to dinosaurs
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 11:11 AM

PTERODACTYLS (to the tune of Frere Jacques)

Pterodactyls
Pterodactyls,
Are extinct,
Are extinct
So I only see them
So I only see them,
When I drink,
When I drink.