The Evolution Song - lyrics

Put your money on the ants,

There’ll probably always be some ants;

Those little critters never seem to find

A place where they can’t live.

They can put up with a flood,

They run right over all the mud;

Now don’t let anybody try to tell you all the ants are trivial…

They do survive all that we give ‘em,

And come on back for more;

You can spray them sweep them, mash their feet then

Still I see them on the floor of my living room, I

Even fumigated the apartment!

Put your money on the ants,

I know there’ll always be some ants;

Exterminationary planning is substantial,

Meanwhile back at the ranch you’ll

Never see the last ant.

Now don’t think just because they’re small,

They don’t matter much at all;

If you add those little buggers up they’d fill a cup

About a mile tall, and in the

Game of evolution they hold the highest cards,

You can spray the outside with insecticide and they’ll

Run inside, commit suicide when they

Try to hide inside a side of hash browns then you

Go outside and you finally find them

All dried up on the sidewalk from the insecticide…

Then one looks up at you and begins to chew

A hole in your resistance.

Put your money on the ants,

I bet there’ll always be some ants;

I know they’ll outlive all my uncles and my aunts,

And even all my descendants,

You’ll never see the last ant.