Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Allosaurus Chorus

More Dino-music fun.........

The Allosaurus Chorus (Sung to the tune of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah)

Allosaurus! Allosaurus!
Allosaurus! Allosaurus! Allosaurus!
Allosaurus! Allosaurus!
Allosaurus! Allosaurus! Allosaurus!

For the great 'Dinosauria reigneth
Barosaurus! Carnotaurus! Hadrosaurus!
Stegosaurus!
For the great 'Dinosauria reigneth
Pachysaurus! Maiasaurus! Fabrosaurus!
Rocasaurus!

For the great 'Dinosauria reigneth
Gasosaurus! Gryposaurus! Gorgosaurus!
Gobisaurus!
Longosaurus! 'Poposaurus! Sellosaurus!
Technosaurus!
Ultrasaurus! Adasaurus! Dryosaurus!
Spinosaurus!
Allosaurus! Allosaurus!

The rulers of the paleo world, is become
A kingdom of creatures both big and
bold - both big and bold,
And they shall roam for millions of years .

Dino kings
For millions of years - Allosaurus!
No-more-us!
Mighty and strong
For millions of years - Stegosaurus!
No-more-us!

Dino kings
For millions of years - Hadrosaurus!
No-more-us!
Mighty and strong
For millions of years - Maiasaurus!
No-more-us!

Dino kings
For millions of years - Ultrasaurus!
No-more-us!
Mighty and strong - dino kings -
might and strong.

And they shall roam for millions of years.

Dino kings
For millions of years - mighty and strong
Allosaurus! No-more-us!

Their bones preserved for eons and eons and eons.
Fossil kings
For all to see.
Fossil kings
For all to see.
Their bones preserved for eons and eons.
Fossil kings
Preserved in stone.
Pachysaurus! Dryosaurus! Spinosaurus!
Allosaurus! Allosaurus!

Lyrics by Anne Muecke.

2 comments:

Adam Yates said...

/nerd mode/ just under half of the twenty names used are invalid dinosaur names(either the name is incorrectly formed, a junior synonym, a nomen dubium, a nomen nudum, or a non-dinosaur) not bad going!/nerd mode off/

ReBecca Hunt-Foster said...

No worries ;) There were mistakes in all of the songs I think (like yesterdays Mesozoic trilobites!). I knew there were names in this song that I had never heard before. They probably just used them because they could make them rhyme or sounded cool to them(?)
Thanks for reading :)