Charles Darwin Songtext

So it really was a mystery
What I'd learned in natural history...

So I joined HMS Beagle
Watched the eagle and the seagull
We studied rocks and plants
Flowers trees and bees and ants

Slept on hammocks without pillows
Eating rats and armadillos
Till I realised on reflection
It's… nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion...
Yeah

Natural selection
Means each animal evolved
To blend with its surroundings
Ch-ch-changes were involved

So birds with different foods to seek Seemed had develop'd different beaks
And over time they'd modified
So just the fittest of them all survived …

On the isles of Galapagos
I noted the giant tortoise
Had interesting shells
And I rode on them as well

Iguanas land and swimming
Meant my new theory was winning
It all led in the direction
Of… nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion...

My findings met with outrage
From the ch-ch-ch-chchurch of England
And from me
The idea that we came from ch-ch-chimps
Questioned my own Christianity
But it was hard to disagree...

Every species new mutation
Had a perfect explanation
It seemed the world's inception
Must pre-date common perception

Any lack of adaptation
Is a fatal limitation
So each creature's imperfection
Over time gets a correction
Meaning animal collections
Grow unique means of protection
And to fail nature's inspection
Means immediate rejection
Which all leads to the detection
Of… nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion
Nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion!