do you know Mary Anning? born on a southern shore her father Richard was a cabinetmaker and Richard died too early and left the Annings poor but lucky Mary Anning found an icthyosaur
by circa 1820 she ran a fossil store she put the bones together for the collectors and science was the province of men of noble birth but I'd take Mary Anning over those stuffed white shirts ancient life that sleeps as fossil
she was walking the cliffs on her own by the sea she was wondering if there were shapes underneath there were men with their cash but that's not what it took she could read every line on the ground like a book she assembled the bones of the past in cement and she sold them in town for a couple of pence and she showed all the men how the bones could connect though at first some would scoff they would grow to respect
(repeat first verse)
how did you get in here? show me what you found dear hello isn't that queer do you have any more?