Stone Age brought you speech Farms, the wheel, and fire Then metal was explored Which meant we could make swords To kill and build empires
Think Ancient Egypt was nicer? Pharaohs' tombs, lovely shrines But some were living graves For hundreds of poor slaves And pig's eye was our cure for the blind
Greek civilisation, our creation Drama and philosophy But Sparta praised lying Celebrated dying And Hippocrates drank wee
We're history We brought you bloodshed Greek excursions to battle the Persians Disembowelling our dead
Together we made the world A little bit grim We're history Could be fairly dim
We Romans brought you roads And public medicine Gladiator fighting Feeding men to lions Burning Christians, that kind of thing, you know
Then came the Middle Ages Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Celts A time of invasion Feudalism, famine Black Death, buboes and welts
1066 saw Harold in a fix As William conquered all What was the bettin' An arrow in his retina Would lead to his downfall
We're history We brought invasion and strife We attacked monasteries Said "Give us gold, please" Then we took your life
Our crusades meant slaughter Wherever we'd go We're History Was it pretty? No.
Tudor, Stuart, Georgian monarchs next in line Brought progress in science and art Also beheadings, burning, civil war, greed And colonies, for a start
We're history We gave you plague and disease Travelled, found the Incans Spread smallpox in a blink and Brought them to their knees
Dogs, cats, and the French Blamed for plague along the way We're history Not such happy days
Victorian technology Went hand-in-hand with poverty Kids up chimneys and down mines Improvements to the world did pick up Despite some violent hiccups Two World Wars, millions died
We're history Our times smelly and gory We reigned over you And told you what to do And that is this story
Thought we were amazing Though you may quibble We're history And we made it horrible We're historyTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
