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