John Wesley Harding
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Darwin

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: John Wesley Harding Canonical path: /john-wesley-harding/darwin Related lyric paths: 6
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Darwin

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The tourists get into their car

And drive through the safari park

There's animals you've only seen in books

And despite the helpful warnings

(You could read them in the dark)

They decide to try and get a closer look

And they park the car and lock it cos you're better safe than sorry

And they try to make the lions look their way

And in a perfect Kodak moment, they're hunting for their car keys

As the lions come bid them all good day

And they say: Haven't you ever heard of Darwin?

Did you think we were going to run and hide?

Haven't you ever heard of Darwin?

Don't roll down your car windows

It's a jungle outside

There's white tigers in Las Vegas

Who deign to show their teeth

Sip tea from china to polite applause

And they're weighing up the gamblers

They're masters or they're meat

Provided they stay arms length from the paws

And it's very nearly showtime, the magicians warm up backstage

And the sound effects so loud that no-one hears

As one tiger turns to the other and says: "you wanna see some magic?

Tonight it's the magicians disappear!"

And the tigers say: Haven't they ever heard of Darwin?

Did they think we'd vanish in thin air?

Haven't they ever heard of Darwin?

Don't roll down your car windows

It's a jungle out there

Further down the food chain

Closer to the ground

Scurry all the scavengers at home

You can tidy up the kitchen

And wash all of the plates

But there's always meat left somewhere on the bone

And all our tiny flatmates are waiting to inherit

The legacy we'll leave behind one night

They feed their little habit and wait with perfect patience til

There's no-one left to turn on all the lights

And they'll sing: Hadn't they ever heard of Darwin?

Now we don't have to run and hide

Hadn't they ever heard of Darwin?

Open up the windows, It's a jungle inside

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