Horrible Histories - The Thinkers Lyrics
Here we come,Through the market square,With our funny,Clothes and hair.Aristotle and Socrates,Plato and Diogenes,Four fab scholars,With our Greek philosophies.Hey, hey,We're the Thinkers,Wondering what,Life is for.We're paid to,Try and think up,The answerTo that and more.People found me irritatingThanks to my interrogatingLike a toddler, was always asking why.What is wisdom, what is beautyWhat is nature, what is dutyTaught everything I know toThis next guy.I'm Plato, was his pupil thinkerEnded up with inky fingersWriting every word he taught meDown.Also had my own theoryLike for everything that we seeThere's a perfect versionTo be found. Ooh!Hey, hey,We're The Thinkers,Mega brainyAncient GreeksWe're alwaysBusy thinking'Cos the truth isWhat we seek.My name is DiogenesI'm not one to say thanks or pleasePoked statues and walked barefootIn the snow.Never believed in possessionsThought they gave the wrong impressionPut faith in total freedomDon't you know.I studied at Plato's academyTaught Alex the Great, I know everything me,Intriged by the worldWanted to show it all.I took all their theories higherDiscovered more to ether, earth, air and fireLearned every scienceI'm Mr Know-It-All!Hey, heyWe're The ThinkersVery wittyVery wiseNo oneCan out-wink usWe are AthensBrainiest guys.Not everyone likes smarties thoughEven Socrates had his foeWhen tried for treasonHe simply said "Why?"They sentenced him to drink hemlockHe said "You know if I take stockI am annoying, I'll take thatAnd die."Hey, hey,We're The ThinkersPoliticiansGave us strifeBut we don'tGive a tinkersCause we taught themAll about life.Ooohhh!
