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Subject: Mama Poked a Mountain Out At Daddy

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Date Posted: 14:15:34 12/30/01 Sun

You wouldn't believe the kind of stuff you run across looking for creation stories. This is based on an African creation story, but I think the guy who recorded it is from San Francisco. I'm thinking about downloading the MP3 to play in the classroom. That should get their attention.

Lyrics
Daddy Sky was reignin' over his kingdom in the air
From far away stars and milky ways to tiny birds and bees so near.
And Mama Earth's great queendom was a perfect, round wet globe
With great big whales and mean old sharks and schools of shinky minnows.

And then one day a sweat-drenched bird said, "Flyin's really grand
But at times we get awful tired, cause there's no place to land."
So Daddy Sky asked Mama Earth to float a little island nest
With flowers and trees where the birds and the bees could recreate and rest.

Chorus:
Oh yes, the birds were in the air and the fish were in the sea,
But there weren't any people walkin' on the Earth like you and me.
Not til Daddy Sky up and proposed dry land to Mama Earth
And Mama Earth just poked a mountain out at Daddy Sky.

The though of spoilin' her perfect shape made Mama Earth so mad
She poked a mountain out at him and snatched it back just like a clam.
Daddy didn't know quite what to say, except "Excuse me Ma'am."
He wished she'd left that mountain out though, cause it sure was dry land.

Mama Earth got even madder at Daddy's polite response
To this day nobody really knows why, 'cept that Mama gets what Mama wants.
She started pokin' mountains out and yankin' 'em back real fast.
The oceans were a broilin' and the fishes were aghast.

chorus

Well Daddy stared in disbelief as angry mountains pierced his sky
'Til one of those swiftly juttin' peaks poked Daddy Sky dead in his eye.
But Daddy held his temper though the anger and the pain.
Instead of lashing out, the sky just clouded up and rained.

He didn't strike with thunderbolts, he kissed with lovin' rain.
And Mama gave her heart to him on rollin' hills and fertile plains
That welcomed all his birds and bees and walkin' folk like you and me
Who gaze at Daddy's twinklin' stars and eat from Mama's apple trees.

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