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^FMm ^Eyeah ^FMm ^Eyeah

[Verse 1]

^CPeople thought all animals ^AmArrived here unrelated The ^Emworld began, and^D#m then came man All ^Dmperfectly ^Fcreated

[Pre-Chorus]

But ^Fthen someone looked up a tree. And said "That ^Emonkey looks just like me!" So it ^Freally was a mystery What I'd ^Glearned in natural history!

[Chorus]

So I ^Cjoined HMS ^EBeagle Watched the ^Ameagle and the s^Ceagull We ^Fstudied rock and plants

Flowers, trees and bees and ants

Slept on ^Chammocks without ^Epillows Eating ^Amrats and ^Carmadillos Till I ^Frealised on reflection It's ^A#natural ^Cselection!

^F ^EYeah! [Verse 2]

^CNatural selection means Each ^Amanimal evolved To ^Emblend with its ^D#msurroundings Ch-ch-^Dmchanges were ^Ginvolved

[Pre-Chorus]

So ^Fbirds with different foods to seek Seem to have d^Eeveloped different beaks And over ^Ftime they'd modified So just the ^Gfittest of them all survived!

[Chorus]

On the ^CIsles of ^EGalapagos I ^Amnoted the gian^Ct tortoise Had ^Finteresting shells

And I rode on them as well

^CIguanas land and ^Eswimming Meant my ^Amnew theory was ^Cwinning It all ^Fled in the direction Of ^A#natural selec^Ction

[Bridge]

My f^Findings met with outrage From the ^A#ch-ch-ch-ch-Church of England ^CAnd from me.^F ^C The ^Fidea that we came from ch-ch-^A#chimps Questioned my own Christi^Ganity

But it was hard to disagree! [Chorus]

Every ^Cspecies new ^Emutation Had a ^Amperfect explana^Ction It ^Fseems the world's inception

Must predate common perception

And if ^Clack of adapt^Eation Means a ^Amfatal limit^Cation So each ^Fcreature's imperfection

Over time gets a correction

Meaning ^Canimal ^Ecollections Grow uni^Amque means of pro^Ctection And to ^Ffail nature's inspection Means ^Fimmediate rejection

Which all leads to the detection

Of ^A#natural ^G#sel^A#ectio^Cn! ^A#Natural selec^Ction!

Horrible Histories - Natural selection