MC: "And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to follow me back to a time when dinosaurs ruled in Mesopotamia — the land between the two great rivers. The very cradle of civilisation...
No, not the Tigris and Euphrates. Not those two tiny trickles. Forget what you learnt in school. I'm talking about the wondrous land between the Wandle and the Falconbrook. (The latter now sadly languishing in a pipe beneath Northcote Road.)
But I get ahead of myself...
Let me introduce you to some old fossils." (We could use the H of the MK as a running theme tune.)
Fossils dance on: ammonites, dinosaurs, mammoths. They sing "The Mes'potamian Rag".
Let's go back in history
Delve into this mystery
Wandsworth Common, tell us more
And dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosaur!
We've gone back to the Cretaceous
To a time before the glaciers
And thanks to Doctor Mantell
There's much more than we can tell
Do the Mes'potamian Rag!
What about the Carboniferous?
Weren't the fossils quite splendiferous?
A Victorian palaeontologist
Had an old tooth on his bucket list
What is this? A mammoth molar?
Sabre-toothed or is it polar?
Two — four — six — eight
Time for us to excavate!
So let's dig in history
Delve into this mystery
>Wandsworth Common, tell us more
And dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosaur!
Navvies dug to Clapham Junction
Digging down without compunction
Oh look a fossil
Isn't it colossal?
Thanks to the Wandle it's
There for us to fondle — let's
Do the Mes'potamian Rag!
