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We were spawned so far
away … upon a distant planet
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We’ve grown
fond of the
U.S.A.
… we’ve bonded to her granite
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Soon we’ll be
her citizens … yes we’ll get naturalized when
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All her fine
Presidents … in order … we have memorized them
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would
recall them all … this silly song keep handy
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Washington
was “Number One” … “The Father of Our Nation”
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John
Adams …
then Tom
Jefferson … who wrote our Declaration
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Madison
… then James
Monroe … he authored his own Doctrine
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John Quincy …
Squire Adams’
bloke … “Old Hick’ry” … Andrew
Jackson
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would
recall them all … this silly song keep handy
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Martin
Van Buren
came eighth … he wore a red begonia
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To Harrison
inaugurate … poor William caught pneumonia
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Tyler
… Polk …
and Taylor … who stood at The White House front door
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Were
supervened by “Prez Thirteen” … the late great Millard
Fillmore
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would
recall them all … this silly song keep handy
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Franklin
Pierce …
then James
Buchanan … delayed Civil War strife
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They left that
fray for “Honest Abe”… which cost
Lincoln
his own life
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Andrew
Johnson
got impeached … no way he could prevent it
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Though at his
trial the charge was breached by one vote in The Senate
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Eighteenth was
Ulysses Grant
… who’d bested Robert E. Lee
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Then dawned
the days of Gen’ral
Hayes …
the brilliant Rutherford B.
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James A.
Garfield
… frontier man and log cabin “Tom Sawyer”
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While at the D. C. station
got shot by some loony lawyer
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would
recall them all … this silly song keep handy
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Noble Chester
Arthur
made a splash at one-and-twenty
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Up next was Grover
Cleveland
who got thrashed but still had plenty
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Harrison
“The Second” functioned longer than the first one
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Till Mister
Cleveland
reappeared … our only pre-rehearsed one
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Will
McKinley
loved to visit … traveling just thrilled him
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He shuffled off to Buffalo where loopy Leon killed him
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Mighty “Teddy”
Roosevelt
… by no man could he be licked
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A softly spoken war
hero … he carried such a big stick
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Taft
gave way to
Wilson … then the world began bombarding
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The Armistice restored
the peace and brought us Warren
Harding
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“Silent Calvin”
Coolidge
was as tight-lipped as a cold clam
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Herbert
Hoover
coined the gold to build himself a bold dam
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Franklin
Roosevelt
… fifth cousin of intrepid “T. R.”
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Scored four
elections … beat Depression … won The Second World War
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Harry
Truman …
haberdasher … less refined but well dressed
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Without a middle
name to sign … he only had to spell “S”
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Eisenhower
… a golfing man … was wicked with his putter
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Though “Ike” might
strike you mellow … he whipped Adolf Hitler’s butter
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John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
departed this world too soon
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Our astronauts … in
memory … shed teardrops on a blue Moon
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Lyndon
Johnson
ticked off five years … Texas bred “L. B. J.”
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He picked his hounds
up by their ears … what else but “Ouch!” can we say?
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Richard
Nixon …
he resigned … that’s written in our textbooks
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Before he quit he
told his fans … “Your President is no crook!”
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Gerald
Ford then
strode erect … composure all collected
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Into The Oval Office
never having been elected
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Jimmy
Carter
flashed a smile… his style just might impress you
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“The Gipper” … Ronald
Reagan …
rode two landslides to our rescue
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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George
Bush
“One” was true blue chip … he promised “No new taxes!”
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He quipped to Congress
… “Read my lips!” … then clipped Saddam’s Iraqxis
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Clinton
hailed from Arkansas … Bill used to
be their “Guv’na”
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His “Hope-full”
saxophone he played to welcome
Bush … “G
Dubya”
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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George Bush “Two” left to reprise life as a Texas farmer
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He flipped the West Wing office keys to young Barack
Obama
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We hope that you’ll keep this song within your mind
preserved … thus
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Whene’er you sing it then you’ll cite each President
who’s served us
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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Yankee Doodle
Presidents ... oh so fine and dandy
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If you would recall
them all … this silly song keep handy
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