The Maya (a stone-cold classic)

The Maya.

Two thousand years ago in central America,
out of the darkness of prehistory,
rose up a people known as the Maya,
shrouded in secrets and deep mystery.
The Maya, ooo oh, the Maya.

Out of the towering forests of rain,
a new kind of people arrived,
building great cities, Palenque, Copán,
brick by brick, and beginning to thrive.

The Mayan Kingdom: a stone-cold classic.
Warrior builders who knew how to hack it.
In the heavy jungle-based pyramids,
never were a people more spirited than the Maya,
ooo oh, the Maya.

They lived on a diet of peppers and maize
and made all their art from jade and stone,
they prayed to the maize gods to bring them the rain,
crop by crop ev’ry dinner was grown.

The Mayan Kingdom: a stone-cold classic.
Warrior builders who knew how to hack it.
In the heavy jungle-based pyramids,
never were a people more spirited than the Maya,
ooo oh, the Maya.

And as the Romans were off in Europe,
and as the Egyptians sailed on the Nile,
this Mesoamerican people were rocking it Yucatan style!

The Mayan Kingdom: a stone-cold classic.
Warrior builders who knew how to hack it.
In the heavy jungle-based pyramids,
never were a people more spirited than the Maya,
ooo oh, the Maya.

Then almost as quickly as they had appeared,
the Mayan Kingdom was gone.
Eighty-eight theories but nobody knows
so we’re singing their song as a way to hold on to

The Mayan Kingdom: a stone-cold classic.
Warrior builders who knew how to hack it.
In the heavy jungle-based pyramids,
never were a people more spirited than the
Mayan Kingdom: a stone-cold classic.
Warrior builders who knew how to hack it.
In the heavy jungle-based pyramids,
never were a people more spirited than the Maya,
ooo oh, the Maya, ooo oh, the Maya, ooo oh, the Maya.