let's go back 12 ,000 years
The sea was a hundred feet lower
seventy miles further out
for the first few people coming south
in its own world of limestone and sand
You could almost believe it was hiding,
The horses and the camels
The saber -toothed cats all died
Along with the glyptodonts
When the first few people arrived
and ravines down in the ground
with their sharp -tipped spears
were always hanging around
And the Au cilla River flowed
The land grew warmer, the water rose,
the ice age came to an end.
Rivers flowed over the limestone holes,
warm was the winter rain.
Everything that survived adapted
The river of grass was born
Mosquitoes and gators found it to be
An excellent hunting ground
Twelve thousand years later
And what have we learned?
The saber -toothed cat's all gone
Blue her ons, chameleons,
a -drinkin' at the country club pond
Development harvests a river of grass
to build more suburban homes
Whole species of life are dying of thirst
as we wa ter our beautiful lawns
You can almost believe it's hiding
Hiding from human hands you
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