The Monkey Trial (Live)

Get on your feet and do the Monkey Trial 'cause evolution's all the rage
You can do it in the audience and on the stage
It was religion versus science in a court for all to see
So when you do the Monkey Trial, you're making history

They do the Monkey Trial on beaches, and also on the ships at sea
The step is every dancer's answer to witty repartee
It puts the fever in your fetlocks, it is the jive that gels
From Nome to Rome, and in your home, the Monkey Trial sells

When William Jennings came to Dayton
He vowed that he would win the case
But when the trial finally finished
It looked like we were second place
But when he went and died in Dayton
He finally clinched the game
For he had won a martyrdom
And posthumously, fame

Well, evolutionists can do it when the folks here make them tense
And fundamentalists can do it in the biblical sense
'Cause the footwork is frenetic, and the style is serene
No Catholic Mass or backroom jazz, but somewhere in between

Get on your feet and do the Monkey Trial as the '20s slip away
You'll see that science is triumphant through Mr. Bryan won the day
A house divided is soon conquered as fundamentalists seem to be
We'll make a deal of the appeal in four-part harmony

When I got up to Heaven, where all the weekends are so wild
I found that Gabriel's new theme song was the Monkey Trial
Well, it's going to the top now of those charts in Kingdom Come
'Cause Jesus plays the lead guitar and Darwin's on the drums

Get on your feet and do the Monkey Trial 'cause evolution's all the rage
You can do it in the audience and on the stage
Well, it started in the courtroom of Dayton Tennessee
So now we've done the Monkey Trial, we've just made history
Made history
Made history