Horrible Histories - The Thinkers lyrics

rate me

Here we come,

Through the market square,

With our funny,

Clothes and hair.

Aristotle and Socrates,

Plato and Diogenes,

Four fat scholars,

With our Greek philosophies.

Hey, hey,

We're the Thinkers,

Wondering what,

Life is for.

We're paid to,

Try and think up,

The answer

To that and more.

People found me irritating

Thanks to my interrogating

Like a toddler, was always asking why.

What is wisdom, what is beauty

What is nature, what is duty

Taught everything I know to

This next guy.

I'm Plato, was his pupil thinker

Ended up with inky fingers

Writing every word he taught me

Down.

Also had my own theory

Like for everything that we see

There's a perfect version

To be found. Ooh!

Hey, hey,

We're The Thinkers,

Mega brainy

Ancient Greeks

We're always

Busy thinking

'Cos the truth is

What we seek.

My name is Diogenes

I'm not one to say thanks or please

Poked statues and walked barefoot

In the snow.

Never believed in possessions

Thought they gave the wrong impression

Put faith in total freedom

Don't you know.

I studied at Plato's academy

Taught Alex the Great, I know everything me,

Intriged by the world

Wanted to show it all.

I took all their theories higher

Discovered more to water, earth, air and fire

Learned every science

I'm Mr Know-It-All!

Hey, hey

We're The Thinkers

Very witty

Very wise

No one

Can have weak us

We are Athens

Brainiest guys.

Not everyone likes smarties though

Even Socrates had his foe

When tried for treason

He simply said "Why?"

They sentenced him to drink hemlock

He said "You know if I take stock

I am annoying, I'll take that

And die."

Hey, hey,

We're The Thinkers

Politicians

Gave us strife

But we don't

Give a tinkers

Cause we taught them

All of our lives.

Ooh!