Story Behind The Song
A history lesson in verse of the people of the Western world, starting in Europe and finishing in The US. Neanderthals to Yankees.
Song Description
Starting with the disappearance of the Neanderthals through the conquest of Europe by the Indo Europeans who created the civilizations of Greece, Rome, quickly on to England, and ending with the take-over of The US, the Europeans have taken over, settled down and said, 'Move over, this land is mine now".
| Song Length |
3:41 |
Genre |
Unique - Children, Spoken Word - Humor |
| Tempo |
Tempo Undefined |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Pleasant, Sociable |
Subject |
Power, History, Past |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
Conquerors
When northern Europe was covered by ice
Neanderthals roamed where the weather was nice
Europe was theirs, they were all alone,
living in caves, making tools of stone.
Only their bones are left today,
our ancestors came on the scene to stay.
Indigenous Greeks left hardly a trace,
the new Europeans took over their place.
Arriving on horseback, with carts and gear
from far away Caucasus by the Crimea.
They scrapped the original matriarchy
to replace it with all male democracy.
Eons before the Romans built Rome
Etruscans had called the peninsula home.
Porsenna, their king, relinquished his land.
In defeat he lent the Romans a hand
by giving them access to letters and art.
That was how Rome got its cultural start.
Rome had aqueducts, temples, a forum,
and bathrooms with plumbing for Romans' decorum.
Turkey and Spain and the place they called Gaul
were conquered, but Rome was about to fall
to waves of Vandals and Teutons and Goths,
and lead in their plumbing which killed them like moths.
Boadica was beaten by Roman force
and Romans built villas in English gorse.
Angles, Saxons and Vikings moved in
Alfred's, Aethelstan's, Harold's kin
But William of Normandy won the crown
and said, "C'est mon pays, maintenant! Kneel down!"
New York was one Colony that pulled out
from England and George and went about
creating the states' independency,
A new world that still had the tendency
to ignore that the country in fact wasn't new
but already belonged to a different crew.
It is no surprise, it's the conquerors' way,
"Move over, it's our land now," is what they all say.