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Ancestors

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The debate about reburial of the remains of the ancient dead is a thorny topic. I thought I'd help......

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Ancestors – The ancestors!

It’s not just about rotting bones, or all about round house homes
It’s not just about dusty tomes, or how you got your Roman nose.
It’s not just about the Time Team, or how the Vikings were really quite mean
It’s not just about invaders gone, or who killed who to get the throne

In ancient times they did some stuff, which even now does inspire us,
Their prayers and their rites we emulate (although we’re not always accurate)
We might honour those of the past by holding up an ale filled glass
Touch their hands across the years, although they would find us very weird

(Chorus) I’m singing about
The ancestors: Really cool
The ancestors: some of them rules
The ancestors: they might be dead
But they’re alive in our hearts, in our land in our heads
The ancestors: Had groovy gods
The ancestors: would think us odd
The ancestors: now let’s think on. You’ll be an ancestor too one day my son
Ancestors!

Some came from very distant lands and worked the soil with rough-hewn hands
Some raped and pillaged then were gone. We don’t like to talk about those ones.
Some lived in caves, some lived in huts, some lived in houses just like us
Some stayed at home. Some went to war. Some were rather attractive – which is nice

(Chorus 2)
The ancestors: Really cool
The ancestors: some of them rules
The ancestors: they might be dead
But they’re alive in our hearts, in our land in our heads
The ancestors: Lived in the past
The ancestors: Were really quite a laugh
The ancestors: through rose tinted glass were as cool as a penguin’s arse

(Middle eight)
Some say we should leave those bones alone
Held deep in the Earth, which has become their home
Some say “Oh No! Excavation’s for me”
“Those bones reveal the story of our history”
Some say some stuff that’s sort of in-between.
It’s a delicate matter, as I’m sure you will agree
There you go, I’m glad that I had a helpful hand in
Developing your understanding of this very complicated matter

What do you think that they will say in those rather futuristic days
When we are all dead and gone. When it is us who are those rotting bones?
Let’s be the ones who leave behind a better world than we did find
Let’s be the geezers of the past who left the future smiles and laughs

(Chorus 3)
The ancestors: That’s us one day
The ancestors: What will they say
The ancestors: When our current age is nothing more than their heritage
The ancestors: Let’s do our best
The ancestors: To join the rest
The ancestors: and work each day to earn the honour of the name
Ancestors

(Outro)
You’re all gonna die
You’re all gonna die
You’re all gonna die and become
Ancestors!

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from Ancestors, released January 6, 2013

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