And This Is What We Do With It...
From the wheel to the web, we take a trip through song at some of mankind’s greatest inventions, and what we've made of them today.
PARODY OF
Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan
MUSIC BY
Richie Webb
FROM
Series 7 Episode 6 (Ingenious Inventors)
LYRICS:
Ancient man, stone tool, fire, axe, cooking gruel
Shelters, spears, glue, clothing, doggy bone, used for sewing
Flutes, rope, China pots, found in China – course, lots.
Start to sing, farming, sheep, pigs, cattle rearing.
Let’s make a home, all about surviving
Man develops basic things to keep himself from dying
Creative and inventive, his talent has no limit
Take a thing of beauty and this is what we do with it…
Big city, ovens, roast, wheels, silk, sailing boats,
Writing, alphabet – Sesame Street? Not yet.
Papyrus, money, swords, glass from the Lebanon,
False teeth, put ‘em in the glass from the Lebanon.
Let’s make music; already got gong,
Chimes, drums, xylophones, harp, lyre, great song.
Melody and rhythm work together so exquisite
Delighting in the sound of music, this is what we do with it…
Cast iron, made now, next catapult – ow!
Glass blowing, mirror ace but only used to stare at face.
Crossbow, fishing reel, toilet roll, paddle wheel,
Gunpowder, fireworks – someone call an ambulance!
Let’s make a phrase, everybody praise!
Printing press, parchment, Shakespeare’s entertainment
Music be the food of love, brevity the soul of wit
Beautiful language and this is what we do with it…
Telescope, thermometer, clock, train, barometer,
Photo, fridge, car as well, phone rings for Graham Bell.
Up high, air balloon, there’s more folks, the cartoon
Big steam powered machines, Smallpox cured by vaccines.
Let’s make stuff, can’t get enough
Telegraph cuts in half, time it takes to call your mates
Air flight exciting innovation of merit
A window on the whole World and this is what we do with it…
Concrete, ugly buildings, blow ‘em up, dynamite
Celluloid, Edison, let there be light!
TV, PC, Hi-Fi, internet,
Email, Snapchat, Wi-Fi, Pinterest.
Still not done, lot’s more to come
First thing we make with 3-D Printer? A gun.
Entire universe knowledge gathered in a tablet,
A single click away from us and this is what we do,
This is what we do, this is what we do with it!
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The History of Music Song
We're Grateful
Victorian Inventions
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