Here we come,
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Through the market square,
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With our funny,
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Clothes and hair.
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Aristotle and Socrates,
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Plato and Diogenes,
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Four fat scholars,
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With our Greek philosophies.
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Hey, hey,
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We're the Thinkers,
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Wondering what,
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Life is for.
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We're paid to,
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Try and think up,
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The answer
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To that and more.
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People found me irritating
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Thanks to my interrogating
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Like a toddler, was always asking why.
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What is wisdom, what is beauty
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What is nature, what is duty
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Taught everything I know to
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This next guy.
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I'm Plato, was his pupil thinker
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Ended up with inky fingers
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Writing every word he taught me
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Down.
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Also had my own theory
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Like for everything that we see
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There's a perfect version
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To be found. Ooh!
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Hey, hey,
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We're The Thinkers,
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Mega brainy
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Ancient Greeks
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We're always
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Busy thinking
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'Cos the truth is
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What we seek.
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My name is Diogenes
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I'm not one to say thanks or please
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Poked statues and walked barefoot
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In the snow.
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Never believed in possessions
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Thought they gave the wrong impression
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Put faith in total freedom
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Don't you know.
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I studied at Plato's academy
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Taught Alex the Great, I know everything me,
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Intriged by the world
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Wanted to show it all.
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I took all their theories higher
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Discovered more to ether, earth, air and fire
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Learned every science
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I'm Mr Know-It-All!
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Hey, hey
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We're The Thinkers
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Very witty
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Very wise
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No one
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Can out-wink us
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We are Athens
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Brainiest guys.
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Not everyone likes smarties though
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Even Socrates had his foe
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When tried for treason
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He simply said "Why?"
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They sentenced him to drink hemlock
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He said "You know if I take stock
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I am annoying, I'll take that
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And die."
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Hey, hey,
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We're The Thinkers
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Politicians
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Gave us strife
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But we don't
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Give a tinkers
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Cause we taught them
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All about life.
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Ooohhh!
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The Thinkers
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Horrible Histories |