The Stegosaurus Song
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The Stegosaurus Song |
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To the tune of "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor"
(Inspired by the construction of Dinosaurs In Their Time at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
| What shall we do with the Stegosaurus, What shall we do with the Stegosaurus, What shall we do with the Stegosaurus, While we all are moving? (chorus) Where goes the Stegosaurus? Where goes the Stegosaurus? Where goes the Stegosaurus? While we all are moving!
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| Put him in a corner with a tarp’lin on him Put him in a corner with a tarp’lin on him Put him in a corner with a tarp’lin on him While we all are moving! |
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Hide him as an artwork in the hall of sculpture, Hide him as an artwork in the hall of sculpture, Hide him as an artwork in the hall of sculpture, While we all are moving! |
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| Put him out with Dippy, let them have a picnic, Put him out with Dippy, let them have a picnic, Put him out with Dippy, let them have a picnic, While we all are moving! |
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| Put him in an office with a secretary, Put him in an office with a secretary, Put him in an office with a secretary, While we all are moving! |
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| Send him to the airport, let him hang with T. Rex, Send him to the airport, let him hang with T. Rex, Send him to the airport, let him hang with T. Rex, While we all are moving! |
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| Send him to New Jersey to be cleaned and polished, Send him to New Jersey to be cleaned and polished, Send him to New Jersey to be cleaned and polished, (Wish we had the money!) |
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| The Stegosaurus Song: The Backstory When the Great Move started, Bernadette told me that there wasn’t enough budget to send the Stegosaurus out for remounting. This left the Museum with a problem: where to keep it during the reconstruction? Ideas had included just storing it away or perhaps moving it to the Hall of Sculpture (although the logistics were such that the beast was too tall to fit through the doorway). So I began singing “What shall we do with the Stegosaurus?” and improvising verses. These wonderful images started popping into my head. This was too good to pass up. I contacted a friend, Kitty Fischer (who numbers among her considerable skills being a cartoonist) and commissioned her to create a set of illustrations. Based on my descriptions and her imagination, this is the result. Enjoy! |
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| The Gray Cat in front of the newly-cleaned-and-polished Stegosaurus Ungulatus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History exhibit Dinosaurs In Their Time. We actually adopted the dark plate (Plate 9, I believe) directly above her right shoulder (or the left shoulder as you see this photo). You too can adopt a piece of a dinosaur. |
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