I AM A HILL

to the tune of School House Rock - I am a Hill

by Michael Atkins and the Glacial Geology class of 1994

INTRO:

I am a hill.

Yes, I am only a hill;

And my faces are all covered with till.

VERSE I:

I had no name when I formed

under ice very thick.

It was a mile above me,

it didn't move very quick.

CHORUS:

So I hoped and prayed

that it would move away,

and I could be a kame.

I am a hill.

Yes, I am only a hill;

And my faces are all covered with till.

VERSE II:

The water came from above

carrying mud and debris.

It piled on my sides

as it added to me.

CHORUS:

And I hoped and prayed

that it would move away,

and I could be a kame.

BACKGROUND:

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DURING BACKGROUND (SPOKEN QUICKLY AS A LECTURE)

You see, I was formed by supraglacial sediment coming down a

moulin through the Green Bay Lobe of the Laurentide Ice sheet. Until the

1880's people thought I was just an average ordinary hill; then a geologist

from Ireland identified hills like me for what we really are, and he gave us

a name...

CHORUS:

I was a hill.

Yes, I was only a hill;

And my faces were all covered with till.

VERSE II:

I waited ten thousand years

after ice disappeared.

When Dave Mickelson found me

I had slump for a beard.

CHORUS:

But my hopes and prayers

had been heard somewhere

because he called me a kame.