Search results for 'President Polk'

The Presidents

Animaniacs

Faboo! Collection

1995

thirty days! 

W:John Tyler he liked country folk 
D:And after him came President Polk 
Y:Zachary Taylor liked to smoke 
His breath killed friends

decree of President Polk
Inciting a war for the territory of Mexico
And so the armies fought and slew
Dying by each other's hands
But you couldn't tell

Mexican American war shit
Social Studies didn't teach about the blood shed
Or how President Polk wanted more land
Offered Mexico price instead
Mexico

the Texas Question 
It seems the nation, they wanted annexation 
And they voted James K. Polk for President

Young Hickory
Can't count him out
No doubt about

James K. Polk

They Might Be Giants

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) [EP]

1990

the passing of
Mister James K. Polk, our eleventh president
Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump

Adams, like Tom Cruise
A half inch more, John Quincy Adams, excluding his shoes
Five feet eight, four presidents stood, James Polk and Taylor, too
William

keep expanding west

What does it mean
Our Manifest Destiny
Well, it's complicated
It might take some time to explain it

In 1844 James K. Polk ran for

was called 'Young Hickory'
Spent two years governor, '39 to '41
Had a taste to be prez, in '44, he would run

James Knox Polk, America's 11th president

I'm gone have to poke a thot
Then it's right back the G's, and these fuck forget me nots
She say I'm pac man with this money, all I eat is polk a dots

I've been thinkin'
About Abraham Lincoln
I've told a lot of folks
About James K. Polk
You know who'd be a friend to me?
President John F. Kennedy

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison
Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan,
Lincoln, Johnson,

James Polk, from Mexico won land for USA
Zachary Taylor served for 16 months then passed away

The presidents of the USA
Trying to make a difference

reversed
In '44, it was Polk and Clay, Clay came in second place
Then Lewis Cass lost to Taylor in this presidential race

In politics and sports,
it's such

So glad the Presidents
Survived delivery
From helpless to what they became
Leading our country

Jefferson's mother bore Thomas on April 13
Buchanan,

William Henry Harrison, typhoid fever is why
John Tyler's diagnosis was a stroke that made him die
James Polk's death came at 53, cholera was the cause

Election Connection on Nickelodeon.

We've had a lot of Presidents
Yup, Forty-three.
Now let's name them all chronologically.

Washington, Adams,

on the 8th, murmured not one more sound
It was the 15th of June that James Polk didn't wake, they say
Grover Cleveland, June 24th was his final day
James