Name: The Scopes Trial
Duration: P00H01M56S
Description: In 90 seconds, this song attempts to inform you about the famous Scopes Trial of 1925.

The Scopes Trial

from Barnum Brown, The Entertainment - Scenes from the life & times of Barnum Brown by Diana Prechter & Kent Cole

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In 90 seconds, this song attempts to inform you about the famous Scopes Trial of 1925.

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SONG 9. The Scopes Trial
"Over the next 2 decades, Barnum Brown continued to collect bones from all over the world. In 1925, he noticed that an acquaintance of his named William Jennings Bryan was in a tricky situation. Mr. Bryan was prosecuting John Scopes for having taught evolution in the public school in Tennessee.

In 1925 a trial was
broadcast 'cross the land;
Clarence Darrow for defense.
William Jennings Bryan in the stand.

Their arguments were electrified,
the neighbors did excite.
Comprehension slowly grows
and that's all right.

Some folks think that animals
are very unrefined.
Towards Darwin's theory of common descent
they remain disinclined.

They can make a law and break a law
to protect the humankind --
Comprehension slowly grows
and that's all right.

[Break]
Surely Barnum Brown was following
the Scopes trial news sensation,
listening to each argument,
considering implication.

[continued]
As a scientist we imagine that
he remained resolute
and might have agreed with Dudley Malone
that there's never a duel with the truth!

The jury called Scopes "guilty" after
9 minutes of debate.
The laws in Tennessee stood firm,
no science could liberate.

All this was on the radio,
the case was watertight.
Sometimes laws change very slowly -- that's all right.

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from Barnum Brown, The Entertainment - Scenes from the life & times of Barnum Brown, released January 22, 2014

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This husband and wife team from Austin, Texas tackles the loved, hated, or forgotten classics of English literature.

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