IGGY THE IGUANADON

Twas back two hundred years ago in 1822
Mary Anne Mantell kicked some gravel with her shoe
And in amongst the stones and rocks some seven teeth she found
Belonging to a beast she guessed was no longer around
In Sussex there in England was where they did make this find
For fossil hunters then this was the first one of its kind
They called it an Iguanadon and later found a spike
They thought it stuck out from his nose but now they’ve got it right

Because it’s thumbs up from Iggy, Iggy the Iguanadon

At first they thought the teeth were from a mammal or a fish
No beast was thought to ever exist to own a tooth like this
Gideon Mantell studied the teeth and thought they looked familiar
The teeth were much the same as an Iguana’s, only bigger.
Then they found a spiky bone wondered where it goes
The rhino has a single horn and has it on its nose
So they called it an Iguanadon but where to put this spike
They thought it stuck out from his nose but now they’ve got it right

Just what these spikes were for we may not ever, ever know
Unless we travelled back it time, way back so long ago
We’d follow ‘round that Iggy to see how he used his spikes
He’d look at us and raise his thumbs to say we’d got it right

It would be thumbs up from Iggy, Iggy the Iguanadon