Elbow Room Lyrics

Elbow Room lyrics

Lyrics & Music by: Lynn Ahrens
Performed by: Sue Manchester
One thing
you will discover
When you get next to one another
Is everybody needs
some elbow room, elbow room.
It's nice when you're kinda cozy, but
Not
when you're tangled nose to nosey, oh,
Everybody needs some elbow, needs a
little elbow room.
That's how it was in the early days of the U.S.A.,
The people kept coming to settle though
The east was the only place
there was to go.
The President was Thomas Jefferson
He made a deal
with Napoleon.
How'd you like to sell a mile or two, (or three, or a
hundred or a thousand?)
And so, in 1803 the Louisiana Territory was sold
to us
Without a fuss
And gave us lots of elbow room,
Oh, elbow
room, elbow room,
Got to, got to get us some elbow room.
Its the West
or bust,
In God We trust.
There's a new land out there ...
Lewis
and Clark volunteered to go,
Good-bye, good luck, wear your overcoat!
They prepared for good times and for bad (and for bad),
They hired
Sacajawea to be their guide.
She led them all across the countryside.
Reached the coast
And found the most
Elbow room we've ever had.
The way was opened up for folks with bravery.
There were plenty of
fights
To win land rights,
But the West was meant to be;
It was
our Manifest Destiny!
The trappers, traders, and the peddlers,
The
politicians and the settlers,
They got there by any way they could (any
way they could).
The Gold Rush trampled down the wilderness,
The
railroads spread across from East to West,
And soon the rest was opened up
for-opened up for good.
And now we jet from East to West.
Good-bye New
York, hello L.A.,
But it took those early folks to open up the way.
Now we've got a lot of room to be
Growing from sea to shining sea.
Guess that we have got our elbow room (elbow room)
But if there should
ever come a time
When we're crowded up together, I'm
Sure we'll find
some elbow room ... up on the moon!
Oh, elbow room, elbow room.
Got
to, got to get us some elbow room.
It's the moon or bust,
In God we
trust.
There's a new land up there!