[Howe-Douglas]
Stone Age brought you speech
Farms, the wheel, and fire

[Howick]
Then metal was explored
Which meant we could make swords
To kill and build empires

[Lowe]
Think Ancient Egypt was nicer?
Pharaohs' tombs, lovely shrines

[Farnaby]
But some were living graves
For hundreds of poor slaves
And pig's eye was our cure for the blind

[Willbond]
Greek civilisation, our creation
Drama and philosophy

[Baynton]
But Sparta praised lying
Celebrated dying
And Hippocrates drank wee
[All]
We're history
We brought you bloodshed

[Willbond/Baynton]
Greek excursions to battle the Persians

[Lowe]
Disembowelling our dead

[All]
Together we made the world
A little bit grim

[Willbond/Baynton]
We're history

[Howe-Douglas/Howick]
Could be fairly dim

[Lowe]
We Romans brought you roads
And public medicine

[Howick]
Gladiator fighting
Feeding men to lions
Burning Christians, that kind of thing, you know
[Rickard]
Then came the Middle Ages
Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Celts

[Willbond]
A time of invasion
Feudalism, famine
Black Death, buboes and welts

[Baynton]
1066 saw Harold in a fix
As William conquered all
What was the bettin'
An arrow in his retina
Would lead to his downfall

[All]
We're history
We brought invasion and strife

[Baynton(?)]
We attacked monasteries
Said "Give us gold, please"
Then we took your life

[Howick]
Our crusades meant slaughter
Wherever we’d go
[Lowe]
We're History

[Rickard]
Was it pretty? No.

[Willbond/Rickard(?)/Moore/Howe-Douglas]
Tudor, Stuart, Georgian monarchs next in line
Brought progress in science and art
Also beheadings, burning, civil war, greed
And colonies, for a start

[All]
We're history
We gave you plague and disease

[Baynton]
Travelled, found the Incans
Spread smallpox in a blink and
Brought them to their knees

[Willbond(?)]
Dogs, cats, and the French
Blamed for plague along the way

[Baynton]
We're history

[Willbond(?)]
Not such happy days

[Howick]
Victorian technology
Went hand-in-hand with poverty
Kids up chimneys and down mines
Improvements to the world did pick up
Despite some violent hiccups

[Farnaby/Lewin]
Two World Wars, millions died

[All]
We're history
Our times smelly and gory
We reigned over you
And told you what to do
And that is this story
Thought we were amazing
Though you may quibble

[Baynton]
We're history
And we made it horrible

[All]
We're history