"The Geology Song"
This was composed by Rockies student (and new full-time NOVA math faculty!) John Weidner. It's the one he sung for us in the airport on our way home from Montana (resulting in this photo):
The Geology Song
to the tune of the theme from the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai
(MP3 download)
Geol - ogy: we study it.
We think - that we know quite a bit.
Mountains - shoot up like fountains.
We know that sandstone's - a grand stone - So's chert!
Granite - a rock that forms a lump.
Landslide - that's what we call a slump.
Gravel - in streams does travel.
We know that claystone's - a gray stone - So's chert!
(triumphally)
The layered rocks, - that everywhere here we see,
are defined through stratigraphy.
And ig - neous rocks we see here too,
wi - i - ith-out a volcano in view.
Oh, Hutton - he looked at Siccar Point
Lyell - he said time's out of joint
Callan - and Pete no failin',
have taught us limestone's - a fine stone - So's chert!
The Geology Song
to the tune of the theme from the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai
(MP3 download)
Geol - ogy: we study it.
We think - that we know quite a bit.
Mountains - shoot up like fountains.
We know that sandstone's - a grand stone - So's chert!
Granite - a rock that forms a lump.
Landslide - that's what we call a slump.
Gravel - in streams does travel.
We know that claystone's - a gray stone - So's chert!
(triumphally)
The layered rocks, - that everywhere here we see,
are defined through stratigraphy.
And ig - neous rocks we see here too,
wi - i - ith-out a volcano in view.
Oh, Hutton - he looked at Siccar Point
Lyell - he said time's out of joint
Callan - and Pete no failin',
have taught us limestone's - a fine stone - So's chert!
4 Comments:
That's awesome. (Strangely enough, I tend to whistle that tune while I'm hiking - or the theme from the Great Escape. Both good marching tunes, although hopefully no one takes them as a comment on the situation.)
Is your first name pronounced to rhyme with "failn'"? I always figured it would sound like Allen.
Hey Andrew,
No - you're right, it rhymes with "Allen." I think John was just looking for an approximate rhyme.
That song is called the Colonel Bogey March.
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