Ages Of Stone

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I’m sure you’ve heard the Stone Age occurred
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For two and a half million years
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But there’s more of Stone Age to engage
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Than maybe it first appears

[Verse 1]
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Dinosaurs  Neanderthals
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Let’s make this clearer
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Didn’t live together
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Came from different eras
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That’s not all I can tell you
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So much more to be known
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About the many phases
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In the ages of stone
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Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
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It’s all the rage
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To skiddly-bap-doo-wa
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Brush up on your Stone Age
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Oh yeah! All right!

[Verse 2]
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It’s fine to define
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An era Palaeolithic
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But you’re gonna have to be
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A little more specific
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Do you mean lower
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When ancient beings first used tools?
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Or middle Palaeolithic
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When Neanderthal ruled?

[Verse 3]
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That’s when Homo sapiens
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Starts to emerge
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But just in Africa
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It’s long before the global surge
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Not till upper Palaeolithic
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Forty thousand years ago
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Did Neanderthal and Homo sapiens say hello
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Neanderthal and Homo sapi
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Living in caveman harmony

[Verse 4]
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Language was invented
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Cave painting art
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Then Palaeolithic ended
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Which meant the start
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Of phase two-be-doo-be-doo-wap
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Turn a new page
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Skiddly-bap-doo-wah
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Buck up on the Stone Age
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Oh yeah! All right!

[Bridge]
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This is where it starts to
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Get all scientific
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Palaeolithic’s followed by
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The era Mesolithic
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Then Neanderthals are wiped out
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By the ice age – horrific!
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After which the Neolithic age
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Was terrific!

[Verse 5]
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Man learned to farm
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Built homes so they could settle
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Then some other folks turned up
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And they discovered metal
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Beaker men from Europe
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Found bronze and outgrown
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The simple and traditional ways of stone

[Verse 6]
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Bronze Age was invented
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By now  man was flying
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‘Cause hot on its heels
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Came the age of iron
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Celts, Druids
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Religion then Rome
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By now a distant memory
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Those ages of stone

[Outro]
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Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
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Since that metallic stage
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Skiddly-bap-doo-wah
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There was no more Stone Age
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Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
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Now you know what is known
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About the many phases of the ages of stone
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Yeah! All right!