Tune: O God Our Help in Ages Past
A thousand ages underground,
His skeleton had lain,
But now his body’s big and round
And there’s life in him again!
His bones like Adam’s wrapped in clay
His ribs of iron stout,
Where is the brute alive today
That dares to turn him out.
Beneath his hide he’s got inside
The souls of living men,
Who dare our Saurian now deride
With life in him again?
Chorus:
The jolly old beast
Is not deceased
There’s life in him again! (roar)
From: W. J. T. Mitchell, The last dinosaur book: the life and times of a cultural icon (University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 97.
Sung at the dinner held at the Crystal Palace's monstrous display, New Year's Eve, 1853
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