Interview: Stephen Merrick and Tim Constable on Eternal Radio

Song written to words by FaceBook friend Bobby Greer

For Every Word

Happy Birthday Sharon

Happy Birthday DS - M

A kind of country-ish song about someone whose 'significant other' is about to leave because plans aren't working out, but saying 'just you wait until things turn around, you'll be back!'... or is he just dreaming? Things turning around is represented by the 'eagle' smiling!

Wait Awhile (Eagle Smile)

Guide Me (O thou Great Redeemer)

Anti-evolution song. Lyrics:
From a speck to a blob in the sea
From a blob to a germ that can breed
From a germ to a fertile seed
And a slimy, slippy thing that can lead…

To a slug and a squid in the sea
To a fish, and a sea centipede
To a frog and the frog learned to breathe
From a frog to a lizard
From a lizard to Godzilla
BUT
DON’T YOU MONKEY AROUND! 
-	I can’t believe it - 
(X 4)

They tell you there’s no purpose
It all happened by chance
No angels, no demons
No spirit, no God, no Romance

But it’s all too amazing
Too wonderfully planned
There’s gotta be more to life than this
Gotta be more to life than I can understand

- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sometime, before there was Time
Nothing exploded into everything.
All the chaos organised itself into galaxies and planets
Then Life emerged out of purposeless matter
And all the information to make you and me
Erupted out of chaos…
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From a mouse to a bat
With a sheep and a cat
From a pig to a horse
And a monkey of course!

As the dragon grew some wings
And the cow began to swim
The monkey climbed out of the tree
And became a man with a
Master’s Degree in Contemporary Philosophy

SO 

DON’T YOU MONKEY AROUND! (X 2)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep, and God’s breath hovering over the waters, God said, “Let there be light”.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
And God saw all that He had done,
and, look, 
it was very good.
(from ‘Genesis, translation and commentary’ by Robert Alter)
Richard Dawkins has a Master Degree in Contemporary Philosophy - but of course, he's not the only one...

Don't You Monkey Around

Possible theme music for City of Culture 2021. Self multi-tracked, hoping some of the reggae guys from back in the day might record it!

Culture Culture Coventry

A reconstruction of an arrangement I made in the early 80s of the very well known instrumental

Kites 2020

From an on-going project, Old Wine in New Wineskins

TimC UK

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