Come to the New World, come to the colonies
13 to choose from; most awesome
Then there’s New Jersey
French and Indian
War makes us begin to see
Why are we listening to a king ‘cross the sea
When we’ve got no repre-sentation
Just unjust taxation
Declare independence, let’s fight for our liberty
To be free
Concord and Lexington
And the fighting has begun
Staging a revolution
Rebels, more like patriots
After Yorktown, we’re our own country
U.S. of A
Let’s write a Constitution
Checks and balances, 3 branches, Bill of Rights
President Washington setting precedents that matter
Mani-fest destiny
Expand into the west
And the abolitionists
Saying that slavery has got to go
And the South that violates their states’ rights
Lincoln, ooh, (the house is divided)
Says they can’t secede
We’ll stay as one even if it means Civil War
Please help the newly freed folks through Reconstruction
Past that stage, Gilded Age, bring on the robber barons
John D. Rockefeller
Need Progressive Era, please
(Monopolies) Monopolies
(Monopolies) Monopolies
Here’s Trustbusting Roosevelt
Delightful-ul-ul-ul-ul
Should we get involved in Europe’s hostility
No, ‘til sub warfare breaks our neutrality
Win but won’t sign League of Nations Treaty
Twenties come, good times roll, women get to vote
Market Crash! No, where did my money go (Where’d it go)
Depression! Hoover has got to go (Got to go!)
Roosevelt! New Deal’s our only hope (Only hope!)
What’s up in Europe (Should we go?)
Hitler’s run amok (Should we go?)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Now they’ve gone and bombed Pearl Harbor
Now we gotta fight World War
On Japanese, drop the a-bomb, score the victory -tory, -tory
So the Cold War pits US vs Soviet might
But you better make sure we all have civil rights
JFK, pushed us to the moon, baby
We’ve beaten Iraq, never going over there
Clinton, Bush, Obama
Trump wins in ‘16
Just the latest chapter
Of American Rhapsody
