My great grand daddy was a dinosaur
My brother was a monkey.
I came from what had come before.
I think one was a donkey.
A relative of long ago
I'm sure once was a frog.
With certainty my fam'ly tree
Had a fuzzy wuzzy dog.
For we are life and lively be
And won't accept we're done
For we're constructed of
The stuff of stars
And we're still having fun.
My babies will be molecules
That leap empty space.
They may be cockeyed cyborgs
Or perhaps the human race,
But crazy be or lazy be
Matters not a bit
For the universe
Would be much worse
If we'd ever quit.
Three cheers for evolution
And life that jumps to Mars,
Whether it be rabbits
Or living autocars.
We'll last as long as we can change
And dance and sing our songs.
We'll leap across the galaxy
And bang the stars like gongs.