Animaniacs (related Recordings) The Presidents Lyrics

The Presidents Lyrics

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 

then 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 kicked 

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 



YW&D: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: Ulysses 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 

YW&D: 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 Camalot 

Then Lyndon Johnson took his spot 

Y:Richard Nixon he gets caught 

And Gerald Ford fell down a lot 



W:Jimmy Carter liked campaign 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:It's democrats and the G.O.P. 

Y:But the ones in charge are plain to see 

D:The Clintons Bill & 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 

YW&D:So jump in your plane and fly away