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The Ages of Stone
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The Ages of Stone
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I'm sure you've heard the Stone Age occurred
For two and a half million years
But there's more of Stone Age to engage
Than maybe it first appears
Dinosaurs, Neanderthals
Let's make this clearer
Didn't live together
Came from different eras
That's not all I can tell you
So much more to be known
About the many phases
In the ages of stone
Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
It's all the rage
To skiddly-bap-doo-wa
Brush up on your Stone Age
Oh yeah! All right
It's fine to define
An era Palaeolithic
But you're gonna have to be
A little more specific
Do you mean lower
When ancient beings first used tools?
Or middle Palaeolithic
When Neanderthal ruled?
That's when Homo sapiens
Starts to emerge
But just in Africa
It's long before the global surge
Not till upper Palaeolithic
Forty thousand years ago
Did Neanderthal and Homo sapiens say hello
Neanderthal and Homo sapi
Living in caveman harmony
Language was invented
Cave painting art
Then Palaeolithic ended
Which meant the start
Of phase two-be-doo-be-doo-wap
Turn a new page
Skiddly-bap-doo-wah
Buck up on the Stone Age
Oh yeah! All right
This is where it starts to
Get all scientific
Palaeolithic's followed by
The era Mesolithic
Then Neanderthals are wiped out
By the ice age, horrific
After which the Neolithic age
Was terrific
Man learned to farm
Built homes so they could settle
Then some other folks turned up
And they discovered metal
Bigger men from Europe
Found bronze and outgrown
The simple and traditional ways of stone
Bronze Age was invented
By now man was flying
'Cause hot on it's heels
Came the age of iron
Celts, Druids
Religion then Rome
By now a distant memory
Those ages of stone
Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
Since that metallic stage
Skiddly-bap-doo-wah
There was no more Stone Age
Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
Now you know what is known
About the many phases of the ages of stone
Yeah! All right
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