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Ancestors - video


bjornpdx

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I posted this song about 5 years ago, maybe more. Always wanted to make a video from it and here it is.
Images are from pixabay, iStock and from my photos and also from a clip art library I've had forever. The clip art images aren't all that great.

Thanks for watching/commenting.
-Bjorn


My ancestors did it all themselves
They wandered where impulse led
They’d navigate by the sun and stars
The cold hard ground their bed

They didn’t mind the weather too much
They all were a hardy bunch   
Whenever they got hungry
They’d have a mammoth for lunch    

I've got digital and I go online  
They had their spears and arrows
Feeling pretty smug about my high tech world
But I've no idea how any of it works

I don’t know where North is
Don’t know how to start a fire
I take to my bed if the power goes out
‘Cause the situation’s too dire

I hunt and gather at the Safeway store
My shelter is air conditioned
My clothes are more for looks than warmth
I love my television

Bug spray, sun screen, Eddie Bauer boots,
I can now venture out of my car
But only if it’s sunny out there
And the scenery isn’t too far.

My ancestors didn’t live too long,     
Maybe thirty years tops
At least they had their health you know
‘Til squashed by a mastodon stomp

Sure I’ll live to be ninety five
I’ll have fragile bones and I’ll walk real slow
Moving pretty fast is my savings account
It’s all going to the nursing home.

Fight or flight never happens to me
Except with that big dog down the street
Survival instincts only come out
Fighting all the traffic during rush hour

If I get stranded on a desert isle
And my cell phone, tablet and laptop die
Then it would likely occur to me
So how do you make electricity?

Everything I have, everything I need
Was made by someone smarter than me
My ancestors did it all themselves
I guess they too were smarter than me

My ancestors they had it pretty rough
But they made a new generation
Life gets better moving up the family tree
It's been a long road to you and me

 

 

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