Fossil song lyrics

Copyright by Cynthia Stevens   (sung to the tune of the aria La Donne e Mobile from La Traviata)

I am a cephalopod fossilized in the mud,

Swimming along one day- then buried in the crust.

Once a sea creature now I’m a geologic feature,

Imagine little me, preserved for immortality!

Remember me in the sea

I lived long ago,

Remember me in the sea,

I lived long ago.

I was looking rather thin,

‘til sediments filled my figure in.

I had no teeth or even bone,

Now I’m completely stone.

Trapped in the strata,

A bit of Paleozoic data,

One look and you’ll see,

300 million years of history!

Remember me in the sea,

I lived long ago,

Remember me in the sea,

I lived long ago.