The Great Nations of Europe
By Randy Newman

The Great Nations of Europe had gathered on the shorethey'd conquered what was behind them and now they wanted moreso they looked to the mighty ocean and took to the western seaThe great nations of europe in the 16th centuryHide your wives and daughters, hide the groceries tooThe great nations of europe comin throughThe Grand Canary Islands first land to which they camethey slaughtered all the canaries there which gave the land its namethere were natives there called guanches, guanches by the scorebullet's, disease the portugese, they weren't there any morenow they're gone, they're gone, they're really goneyou never seen anyone so gonethere's pictures in a museum, some lines written in a bookbut you won't find a live one, no matter where you lookHide your wives and daughters, hide the groceries tooThe great nations of europe comin throughcolumbus sailed for india found salvidor insteadhe shook hands with some indians and soon they all were deadthey got tb and typhoid and athletes foot, diptheria and the flu'scuse me great nations comin throughbalboa found the pacific and on the trail one dayhe met some friendly indians whom he was told were gaysoooooooooooooohe had them torn apart by dogs on religious grounds they saythe great nations of europe were quite holy in their waynow they're gone, they're gone, they're really goneyou never seen anyone so gonesome bones hidden in a canyon some paintings in a cavethey're no use tryin to save them, there's nothin left to savehide your wives and daughters, hide your sons as wellwith the great nations of europe you never can tellwhere you and i are standing at the end of a centuryeuropes have sprung up everywhere as even i can seebut there on the horizon is the possiblitythat some bug from out of africa might come for you and medestroying everything in it's path from sea to shining sealike the great nations of europe in the 16th century