Songs about science XI: Charlie Darwin - November 17, 2008
English music collective Chumbawamba have stopped singing truly awful songs about the UK’s drinking culture long enough to pen this ditty about Charles Darwin.
“It’s probably one of very few songs about Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution,” says one of the band. “Quite good really at a time when they’re talking about teaching creationism in schools. ... Rather imaginatively this song is also called ‘Charlie’.”
Full lyrics for ‘Charlie’ can be found on the Pharyngula blog, which drew it to our attention. It’s not a patch on Darwin in Dub though.
More musical Darwin
DJ Darwin – “a world of musical creatures which are living in a system of death driven evolution - with a slightly sexist division of Male and Female creatures, respectively functioning with beats and melodies genes.”
Evolution (Use Your Brain) by My Poor Kevin
Previously on Songs about Science
Songs about science
Songs of science part II
Songs about science part III: geology
Songs about science part IV: GeekPop08
Songs about science part V: singing scientists
Songs about science part VI: ‘Don’t go messing with our telescope’
Songs about science VII: ‘It’s a long way from Amphioxus’
Songs about pseudo-science
Songs about science part VIII: the astrobiology rap
Songs about science IX: Rollin’ to the Future
Songs about science X: drilling’s killer songs
