Los Angeles “Paisley Underground” band The Bangles’ tune September Gurls gets a remake by History Teachers to tell the story of The Olmecs and those big stone heads.
Mira the History Teachers’ lyrics:
The Olmec heads
From long ago
Where they came from
No one knows
But they’ve been ’round for centuries
Mesoamerican mysteries
Each one a single block
Forty tons of rock
The Olmecs lived in Tenochtitlan
And spread throughout the Yucatan
First culture on the continent
No one knows where they went
They thrived for hundreds of years
And then they all disappeared
Explorers have found strong support
That they had writing and loved ball sports
They knew of zero,
Calendars,
And human sacrifice!
The Olmec name wasn’t theirs at all
The Aztecs named them for their rubber balls
“Rubber people” left behind
A mystery for all time
They thrived for hundreds of years
And then they all disappeared
The Bangles do September Gurls: