The LouisVillains Home Albums Booking Bio Contact Photos Videos Events Mankind Was Here Credits Lyric Credits: Gregg Eisenberg Music Credits: Gregg Eisenberg Publisher Credits: Heavy Meadow Productions Metadata Song Length 5:13 Primary Genre Folk-Contemporary Secondary Genre Folk-Contemporary Lead Vocal Female Vocal Subject Matter 1 Earth Language English Lyrics Mankind was here You can see the remnants of his tire tracks Fading in the desert sand - where he once lived Mankind was here You can see the places where he drove his Cadillacs First cleared by lumberjacks - both far and near (Chorus): And he loved what he saw in the grain of the land And he took what he could with the strength of his hand And he knows where it goes Is it beyond his command to go slow? And Man built Great dams where the water spilled Many holes into the Earth were drilled - where he once lived And Man filled River bottoms with a heavy silt From the farmlands he plowed and tilled - both far and near (Chorus) And Man built Great clocks in his city squares Loading docks by the city piers - where he once lived And Man lived In the box of time he built For the rocks he mined and milled - both far and near Mankind was here You can see the remnants of his tire tracks Fading in the desert sand - where he once lived And Man lived In the box of time he built For the rocks he mined and milled - both far and near