Schoolhouse Rock! quotes

In 1787 I'm told

Our founding fathers did agree

To write a list of principles

For keepin' people free.

The U.S.A. was just startin' out.

A whole brand-new country.

And so our people spelled it out

The things that we should be.

In 1787 I'm told

Our founding fathers all sat down

And wrote a list of principles

That's known the world around.

Now you have heard of Women's Rights,

And how we've tried to reach new heights.

If we're "all created equal"...

That's us too!

I'm just a bill.

Yes, I'm only a bill.

And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.

Well, it's a long, long journey

To the capital city.

It's a long, long wait

While I'm sitting in committee,

But I know I'll be a law someday

At least I hope and pray that I will,

But today I am still just a bill.

Lovely Lady Liberty

With her book of recipes

And the finest one she's got

Is the great American melting pot.

The great American melting pot.

You simply melt right in,

It doesn't matter what your skin.

It doesn't matter where you're from,

Or your religion, you jump right in

To the great American melting pot.

The great American melting pot.

Ooh, what a stew, red, white, and blue.

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 a comin' 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?)

Oh, elbow room, elbow room,

Got to, got to get us some elbow room.

It's the west or bust,

In God we trust.

There's a new land out there...

Louis 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.

Ooh, there's gonna be fireworks (Fireworks!)

On the Fourth of July (red, white, and blue!)

Red, white, and blue fireworks

Like diamonds in the sky. (diamonds in the sky!)

We're gonna shoot the entire works on fireworks

That really show, oh yeah,

We declared our liberty two hundred years ago.

Yeah!

In 1776 (fireworks!)

There were fireworks too(red, white, and blue!)

The original colonists,

You know their tempers blew (They really blew!)

Like Thomas Paine once wrote:

It's only common sense(only common sense)

That if a government don't give you your basic rights

You'd better get another government.

And though some people tried to fight it,

Well, a committee was formed to write it:

Benjamin Franklin, Philip Livingston,

John Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson,

They got it done (Oh yes they did!)

The Declaration, uh-huh-huh,

The Declaration of Independence (Oh yeah!)

In seventeen hundred seventy six (Right on!)

The Continental Congress said that we were free (We're free!)

Said we had the right of life and liberty,

...And the pursuit of happiness!