Big Wooly Mammoth Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Mitch Cumstein 

Cover art for Big Wooly Mammoth lyrics by Widespread Panic

This is a very deep song and quite powerful...shows man's evolution from the stone age through the stoned age...how we've grown as a people through biblical times (Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) to a society so advanced we can imbibe enormous amounts of substances cooked up in dirty tubs in West Virginnie and send ourselves into a lather of convulsing, glowstick tossing, lighter throwing idiots.

Yet the subtle genius is that the biblical Scholar Jojo of Oxford points out that we haven't grown at all. We've gone from stoning sinners to throwing lighters, tequila bottles and fatties at our modern day profits.

Truly a conundrum, wrapped in a riddle, cradled in an enigma, drowned in cheap red wine.

We may never know the truth.