Animaniacs 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
Constitution 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 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 county 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
YW&D: Wiiilllllllson
Takes us into World War
One

Y:Warren Harding he does fine
D:It's Calvin Coolidge next in
line
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 F. Kennedy, he
gets shot
So Lyndon Johnson takes his spot
Y:Richard Nixon he gets
caught
And Gerald Ford fell down alot

W:Jimmy Carter liked camping
trips
Y:And Ronald Regan's speeches' scripts
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 one in charge
is plain to see
D:It's Clinton, first name Hilary

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