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Mm yeah
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Mm yeah
[Verse 1]
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People thought all animals
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Arrived here unrelated
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The world began, and then came man
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All perfectly created
[Pre-Chorus]
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But then someone looked up a tree.
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And said "That monkey looks just like me!"
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So it really was a mystery
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What I'd learned in natural history!
[Chorus]
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So I joined HMS Beagle
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Watched the eagle and the seagull
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We studied rock and plants
Flowers, trees and bees and ants
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Slept on hammocks without pillows
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Eating rats and armadillos
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Till I realised on reflection
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It's natural selection!
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Yeah!
[Verse 2]
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Natural selection means
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Each animal evolved
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To blend with its surroundings
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Ch-ch-changes were involved
[Pre-Chorus]
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So birds with different foods to seek
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Seem to have developed different beaks
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And over time they'd modified
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So just the fittest of them all survived!
[Chorus]
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On the Isles of Galapagos
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I noted the giant tortoise
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Had interesting shells
And I rode on them as well
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Iguanas land and swimming
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Meant my new theory was winning
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It all led in the direction
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Of natural selection
[Bridge]
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My findings met with outrage
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From the ch-ch-ch-ch-Church of England
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And from me.
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The idea that we came from ch-ch-chimps
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Questioned my own Christianity
But it was hard to disagree!
[Chorus]
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Every species new mutation
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Had a perfect explanation
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It seems the world's inception
Must predate common perception
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And if lack of adaptation
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Means a fatal limitation
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So each creature's imperfection
Over time gets a correction
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Meaning animal collections
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Grow unique means of protection
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And to fail nature's inspection
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Means immediate rejection
Which all leads to the detection
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Of natural selection!
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Natural selection!
