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The Classical Greek
Open House
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Come and sit down a while and I'll sing you some praises
Recall faded glories and honour the dead
And I hope that a smile will crack all of your faces
And care nor worry escape from your head
I'll tell of some lads of exceptional quality
All of them geniuses truly unique
And a gambler who'd bet the last bill in his wallet
Would wager I sing of the classical Greek
For philosophy mighty and pure cogitation
There's none to compare with the classical Greek
If thinking were drinking and jollification
An ocean of booze would have lasted a week
Democritus, Plato, and good old Pythagoras
Socrates, Zeno, Protagoras too
Don't forget Aristotle, his blood should be bottled
For Plato, the whole philosophical crew
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Now Homer composed a poetical portion
Of versification the best in the world
He juxtaposed Greeks and athletical Trojans
And to the equation he added a girl
He called it the Iliad rhyming until he had
Filled up his brain and a ten gallon hat
When he started the Odyssey, for instance, my God
Is he going to remember a mouthful like that?
Hippocrates, surely the first of physicians
Gave medical science a shot in the arm
A doctor, he said, must obey one condition
Whatever you do, don't you do any harm
His mother was pleased by his fine occupation
His fortune applauded by folks far and near
But he secretly grieved that his earthly duration
Preceded the golf club by two thousand years
Three cheers for this classical civilization
May songs in its honour forever be sung
May each singer be granted a standing ovation
And glorification from each leather lung
An age of pure gold and reflected their brilliance
But soon we are told the whole joint went to pot
For the genius infected these Greeks by the millions
Not one MBA graced the whole sorry lot
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