Learn to Rap the Presidents!


This weekend I was thinking about President's day and what kind of weird connection the internet would produce that ties music and the top office in our nation together. I think I might have just found the craziest connection out there: a rap that lists the presidents in order of their reign. I don't see this song becoming a number one hit or gaining the MC any street cred, but it's really damn catchy and might just teach you a thing or two while your foot taps to the beat.

Happy President's day!

Note: Check below the vid for lyrics and production credits.


Created by: Rhythm, Rhyme, Results
Lyrics: Ben Jackson
MC: "Kazuo"
Producer: The Arcitype

LYRICS

Verse I
Memorizing presidents is gonna take some effort
We'll start with George Washington, Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
Then James Madison and James Monroe
Then John Quincy Adams like his father before

Next up we've got some interesting folks
Named Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, and Polk
The next four presidents that we'll examine
Are Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan

Chorus
44 Presidents, White House residents
From the Revolution to the age of the Internet
(×4)

Verse II
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves
Then we got Johnson, Grant, and Rutherford Hayes
James Garfield, Chester Arthur
Cleveland and Harrison; let's keep going farther

Next up, we got Cleveland again
Then McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
The next four, yeah you know who they are, it's
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and FDR

Chorus

Verse III
No presidents are from Wisconsin
Not Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, or Johnson
We're getting near the end, but its not getting harder
Its Nixon, Ford, then Jimmy Carter

Last few, we're almost done
Weve just got Regan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush the Son
Obama's in the White House now
So hail to the chief and stand up proud

1 comments

  1. Awesome! Great teaching tool for history teachers!

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