Continental Drift
Original lyrics penned 1993, © 2004 by James West Nelson
Tune: " He's Got the Whole World in His Hands "
It makes the whole world move and shake
It makes volcanoes and big earthquakes
It makes land masses float apart
We call it Continental Drift
'Bout a hundred years ago, in Germany, Mr. Alfred Vay-gunner tried to see
Why the maps he was reading seemed to fit like a jigsaw puh-uh-zuhl
He said it to himself then he said out loud, "The continents are drifting." to the crowd
Well they laughed and laughed and wouldn't believe, that the land could move like the sea
But Vay-gunner and other scientists, kept searching and searching for some bits
Of proof or information that seemed to fit the Continental Drift Theory.
First they found fossils on opposite shores of the wide Atlantic and said, "Of course!
These creatures couldn't swim here, why couldn't it be, long ago there wasn't this sea."
Next they matched rocks up, and wouldn't you know, so many miles apart, but together they go
People started saying, "Maybe Vayg'ner was right. Let's keep searching both day and the night."
Along came a terrible world war and submarines sail'n from shore to shore
Discovered volcanic mountains under the sea, to start the Plate Tectonics Theory
It makes the whole world move and shake
It makes volcanoes and big earthquakes
It makes land masses float apart
We call it Continental Drift