I'm sure you've heard the Stone Age occurred,
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For two and a half million years.
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But there's more of Stone Age to engage,
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Than maybe it first appears.
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Dinosaurs, Neanderthals,
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Let's make this clearer.
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Didn't live together,
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Came from different eras.
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That's not all I can tell you,
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So much more to be known.
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About the many phases,
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In the ages of stone.
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Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
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It's all the rage.
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To skiddly-bap-doo-wa
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Brush up on your Stone Age.
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Oh yeah! All right!
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It's fine to define,
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An era Palaeolithic.
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But you're gonna have to be,
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A little more specific.
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Do you mean lower,
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When ancient beings first used tools?
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Or middle Palaeolithic,
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When Neanderthal ruled?
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That's when Homo sapiens,
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Starts to emerge.
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But just in Africa,
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It's long before the global surge.
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Not till upper Palaeolithic,
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Forty thousand years ago.
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Did Neanderthal and Homo sapiens say hello,
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Neanderthal and Homo sapi,
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Living in caveman harmony.
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Language was invented,
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Cave painting art.
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Then Palaeolithic ended,
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Which meant the start.
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Of phase two-be-doo-be-doo-wap
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Turn a new page.
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Skiddly-bap-doo-wah
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Buck up on the Stone Age.
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Oh yeah! All right!
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This is where it starts to,
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Get all scientific.
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Palaeolithic's followed by,
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The era Mesolithic.
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Then Neanderthals are wiped out,
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By the ice age - horrific!
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After which the Neolithic age,
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Was terrific.
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Man learned to farm,
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Built homes so they could settle.
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Then some other folks turned up,
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And they discovered metal.
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Bigger men from Europe,
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Found bronze and outgrown.
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The simple and traditional ways of stone.
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Bronze Age was invented,
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By now man was flying.
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'Cause hot on it's heels,
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Came the age of iron.
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Celts, Druids,
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Religion then Rome.
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By now a distant memory,
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Those ages of stone.
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Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
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Since that metallic stage.
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Skiddly-bap-doo-wah
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There was no more Stone Age.
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Shooby-dooby-doo-wap
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Now you know what is known,
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About the many phases of the ages of stone
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Yeah! All right!
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Stone Age Song
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