M_ut_{ant Gen}erat_ions

This parody was sung by Steve Macdonald on Roundworm

Parody of “Spiral Dance”, words and music by Anne Prather

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Parody lyrics ©1994-09-25 by Bob Kanefsky. All rights reserved. The copyright of the original lyrics and music remain with the holder(s) of the original copyright.

A9 When

I was young, I used to wonder, didn’t

G9 you

,

A9 Why

Mr. Spock had one head instead of

G9 two

.

How

D creat

ures who are not our distant

A9 kin

Would

G9 hit

on breathing

G9/F# through

the pipe that food

Esus4 goes in

.

E

A9 It

taught us an unscientific

G9 view

,

The

D same

ness in a

E Fed

eration

A9 crew

.

Chorus:

You’d  G9 think  the dance of life for several  A9 bill ion years Would prod G9 uce  more  G9/F# variation  than just  Esus4 pointed  E ears . It  A9 viol ates the laws we thought we  G9 knew , The  D same ness in a  E Fed eration  A9 crew .

We’re closer to a radish than a Romulan,
An unrelated creature of a foreign sun.
How can a Klingon/human couple mate?
She’s closer to the gak that squirms upon her plate.
How could each evolve from different gobs of goo
To the sameness of a Federation crew?

(Chorus)

What makes a moose a moose and not a kangaroo?
Remoteness for a hundred million years or two.
And breeding for a mere few hundred years
Can yield a dog with floppy or with pointed ears.
No billion-year-old seeding program grew
The sameness of a Federation crew.

(Chorus)

Did convergent evolution shape them all by chance,
To fit in Star Fleet’s regulation shoes and pants?
What narcissism makes five-fingered hands
Prerequisites for venturing from native lands?
There’s more richness in a single planet’s zoo
Than the sameness in a Federation crew.

(Chorus)