The Presidents Song Lyrics

THE PRESIDENTS SONG (Episode 75)Lyrics by Randy Rogel.Sung to the William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Rossini.Verses preceded by an asterisk (*) are original lyrics heard on the Variety Pack album, replaced on television by the previous listed verse.Yakko: Heigh ho, do you knowThe names of the U.S. residentsWho then became the presidentsAnd got a view from the White House looOf Pennsylvania Avenue?Wakko: George Washington was the first, you seeHe once chopped down a cherry treeDot : President number two would beJohn Adams and then number three* Yakko: George Washington was the first, you see* He once chopped down a cherry tree* Dot : President number two would be* John Adams and then number threeYakko: Tom Jefferson stayed up to writeThe Declaration late at nightSo he and his wife had a great big fightAnd she made him sleep on the couch all night* Yakko: 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 nightWakko: James Madison never had a sonAnd he fought the War of 1812Dot : James Monroe's colossal noseWas bigger than Pinocchio'sYakko: John Quincy Adams was number sixAnd it's Andrew Jackson's butt he kicksSo Jackson learns to play politicsNext time he's the one that the country picksDot : Martin Van Buren, number eightFor a one-term shot as Chief of StateYakko: William Harrison, how do you praise?That guy was dead in thirty daysWakko: John Tyler, he liked country folkDot : And after him came President PolkYakko: Zachary Taylor liked to smokeHis breath killed friends whenever he spokeWakko: Eighteen fifty, really niftyMillard Fillmore's inYakko: Young and fierce was Franklin PierceThe man without a chinDot : Follows next a period spannin'Four long years with James BuchananThen the South starts shootin' cannonAnd we've got a civil warYW+D : A war, a war down south in DixieYakko: Up to bat comes old Abe LincolnDot : There's a guy who's really thinkin'Wakko: Kept the United States from shrinkin'Saved the ship of state from sinkin'Dot : Andrew Johnson's nextHe had some slight defectsWakko: Congress eachWould impeachDot : And so the country now electsYakko: Ulysses Simpson GrantWho would scream and rave and rantWakko: While drinking whiskeyAlthough risky'Cause he'd spill it on his pantsYakko: It's eighteen seventy-sevenAnd the Democrats would gloatBut they're all amazed when Rutherford HayesWins by just one voteDot : James Garfield, someone really hated'Cause he was assassinatedWakko: Chester Arthur gets instatedFour years later, he was tradedDot : For Grover Cleveland, really fatElected twice as a DemocratThen Benjamin Harrison; after thatIt's William McKinley up to batYakko: Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan HillWakko: And President Taft, he got the billYakko: In 1913 WoodrowYW+D : Wil......son takes us into World War OneYakko: Warren Harding next in lineDot : It's Calvin Coolidge; he does fineWakko: And then in nineteen twenty-nineThe market crashes, and we find* Yakko: Warren Harding, he does fine* Dot : It's Calvin Coolidge next in line* Wakko: And then in nineteen twenty-nine* The market crashes, and we findYakko: It's Herbert Hoover's big debutHe gets the blame and loses toDot : Franklin Roosevelt, president whoHelped us win in World War TwoWakko: Harry Truman, weird little humanServes two terms and when he's doneYakko: It's Eisenhower who's got the powerFrom fifty-three to sixty-oneDot : John Kennedy had CamelotThen Lyndon Johnson took his spotYakko: Richard Nixon, he gets caughtAnd Gerald Ford fell down a lot* Dot : John F. Kennedy, he gets shot* So Lyndon Johnson takes his spot* Yakko: Richard Nixon, he gets caught* And Gerald Ford fell down a lotWakko: Jimmy Carter liked campaign tripsYakko: And Ronald Reagan's speeches' scriptsAll came from famous movie clipsAnd President Bush said "read my lips"Dot : Now in Washington D.C.Wakko: There's Democrats and the G.O.P.Yakko: But the ones in charge are plain to seeDot : The Clintons, Bill and Hillary* Dot : Now in Washington D.C.* Wakko: There's Democrats and the G.O.P.* Yakko: But the one in charge is plain to see* Dot : It's Clinton, first name HillaryYakko: The next President to lead the wayWell, it just might be yourself one dayThen the press'll distort everything you sayYW+D : So jump in your plane and fly awayTranscribed by Steve Kramer