The Rock Type Blues

Some things are best learned in song. (Or rather, some people like to make fools out of themselves in public?) While volunteering at a local nature center on geology day, I just couldn't help myself. I had to write a song to help explain rock types.
I don't have the guts to sing this on video, but teachers are welcome to make up their own tunes and sing away. I'm sure this will be a hit song on the geology charts one of these days...

The Rock Type Blues
copyright 2009 Karrie McAllister

I got a collection
of all kind of rocks
There’s pink and there’s brown
There’s stripey and dots.

But it would be much better
If only I could see
What these rocks were
And how they came to be

Now I’ve got those blues,
Those low down rock type blues.
Those sedimentary, igneous
And metaphorphic rock type blues.

Now all over the world
Rock’s being eroded
Those little small pieces
Are all getting molded

And settling down
Cementing together so complimentary
You got your sandstone and your fossils and
Well, that’s sedimentary.

Now I’ve got those blues,
Those low down rock type blues.
Those sedimentary, igneous
And metaphorphic rock type blues.

Now deep underground
Waaay down I exclaim
Is the melted rock
Magma is its name.

But sometimes that rock
Is different I know
Because it’s called lava
When it shoots from a volcano.

And when the rock cools
It’s name you just can’t miss.
Whether its granite or obsidian
It’s all called igneous.

Now I’ve got those blues,
Those low down rock type blues.
Those sedimentary, igneous
And metaphorphic rock type blues.

The last type of rock
It’s a little more strange
It’s been cooked and squished
It’s gone through a change.

And shale becomes slate,
You just can not ignore it
And when granite become gneiss
We call it metamorphic.

Now I don’t have those blues,
Because I know all the rock type clues.
Goodbye to those sedimentary, igneous
And metaphorphic rock type blues.