Your momma was a lobefinned fish
| 11 February, 2011 | Richard P. Grant |
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It’s Valentine’s Day on Monday, and Darwin’s Birthday on Saturday. What better way to celebrate these two events than a sandwich of art and music?
Ray Troll is an artist and musician in Alaska. He’s kindly provided this artwork in celebration of the great man:
And here’s the song, The Devonian Blues
Dig that didgeridoo! (Download Devonian Blues mp3.)
Lyrics
I’m thinking ‘bout my momma and I’m thinking ‘bout you
Got those Sarcopterygian Devonian bluesMy momma told me something that few people know
We were all a bunch of fishes a long time agoSo wave your fins in the air, it’s plain to see
You are wayward fish and it will set you freeOut of the ooze and we were born to cruise
For burgers in cars with nothin’ to loseCan’t really say it was part of a plan
But it took millions of years to go from fish to manDid we lose our way when we left that pool?
Sometimes I think so when we act like foolsYour momma was a lobefinned fish
Your momma was a lobefinned fishEvery little girl every single boy
Was born from the clan of the wayward DipnoiDon’t let that preacher man spoil all the fun
It tool a lot more than six days to get this job doneAmphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and man
All belong to the fish tribe, don’t you understand?Your momma was a lobefinned fish
Your momma was a lobefinned fishIt’s all there locked in the stone
The truth is told in fossilized boneFish had fingers, fish had arms
Crawling onto land like a charmChanging the world, the rocks revealing
On and on in the chain of being
—by Ray Troll
Part two of the sandwich will be on Monday. Have a good weekend, y’all!
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perfect for my Comparative Anatomy class! Thanks.
Excellent for the Geology class too…….
Don’t forget to play it on Darwin’s birthday!
I’m glad you like it!
It’s perfect. I can’t say more. ;D
It doesn’t get any better than science and rock’n’roll.
Very good.
check Ray’s page out, it is full of wonders: http://www.trollart.com/
get the posters and hang them on the walls of your classrooms: “Spawn ’till you die” is perfect when lecturing about reproductive biology. “There is no free lunch” explains food web theory. Art belongs in science! and Happy Darwin day to you all!