The Presidents Songtext

von Animaniacs

Y:
Heigh ho!
Do you know,
The names of the US Residents
Who then became the Presidents
And got a view from the White House loo
Of Pennsylvania Avenue

George Washington was the first, you see
He once chopped down a cherry tree

D: President number two would be
John Adams and then number three

Y: Tom Jefferson stayed up to write
The Declaration late at night
So he and his wife had a great big fight
And she made him sleep on the couch all night

W: James Madison never had a son
And he fought the War of 1812

D: James Monroe's colossal nose
Was bigger than Pinnochio's

Y: John Quincy Adams was number six
And it's Andrew Jackson's butt he kicks
So Jackson learns to play politics
Next time he's the one that the country picks

D: Martin Van Buren number eight
For a one term shot as Chief of State

Y: William Harrisson, how do you praise?
That guy was dead in thirty days!

W: John Tyler he liked country folk
D: And after him came President Polk
Y: Zachary Taylor liked to smoke
His breath killed friends whenever he spoke

W: 1850, really nifty
Millard Fillmore's in
Y: Young and fierce was Franklin Pierce
The man without a chin

D: Follows next a period spannin'
Four long years with James Buchanan
Then the South start shootin' cannon
And we've got a civil war

YWD: A war!
A war down south in Dixie!

Y: Up to bat comes old Abe Lincoln
D: There's a guy who's really thinkin'
W: Kept the United States from shrinking
Saved the ship of state from sinking

D: Andrew Johnson's next
He had some slight defects
W: Congress each
Would impeach
D: And so the country now elects

Y: Ulysees Simpson Grant
Who would scream and rave and rant
W: While drinking whiskey
Although risky
Cause he'd spill it on his pants

Y: It's 1877, and the democrats would gloat
But they're all amazed when Rutherford Hayes
Wins by just one vote

D: James Garfield, someone really hated
Cause he was assasinated
W: Chester Arthur gets instated
Four years later he was traded

D: For Grover Cleveland, really fat
Elected twice as a democrat
Then Benjamin Harrisson, after that
It's William McKinley up at bat

Y: Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill
W: And President Taft he got the bill
Y: In 1913 Woodrow
YWD: Wiiilllllllson...
Takes us into World War One

Y: Warren Harding, next in line
D: It's Calvin Coolidge; he does fine
W: And then in 1929
The market crashes and we find

Y: It's Herbert Hoover's big debut
He gets the blame, and loses to
D: Franklin Roosevelt, President who
Helped us win in World War Two

W: Harry Truman, weird little human
Serves two terms and when he's done
Y: It's Eisenhower, who's got the power
From '53 to '61

D: John Kennedy had Camelot
Then Lyndon Johnson takes his spot
Y: Richard Nixon he gets caught
And Gerald Ford fell down a lot

W: Jimmy Carter liked camping trips
Y: And Ronald Regan's speeches' scripts
All came from famous movie clips
And President Bush said "read my lips"

D: Now in Washington D.C.
W: There's democrats and the G.O.P.
Y: But the ones in charge are plain to see
D: The Clinton's, Bill and Hillary

Y: The next President to lead the way
Well, it just might be yourself one day
Then the press'll distort everything you say
YWD: So jump in your plane and fly away