History Project...Gone Bad!
"Buffalo, you can't stop a train"
Railroad Rap:
Don't even ask how we came up with this one. It's supposed to go to the music of Outkast's "Bombs over Baghdad."
1...2...1, 2, 3 Yeah!
Inter-continental railroad,
Freight train with a great big load,
Millions natives on the plains,
Buffalo you can’t stop a train,
Big cities grow around train stations,
Move all the Indians onto reservations,
To make way for people and trains,
Farmers mad cause it just won’t rain,
All the crops dying and going into debt,
They have payments that can’t be met,
Gospel of Wealth; they deserve what they get,
This will be the year that you won’t forget
1-8-9-2 Homestead Act is passed
Cattle-drivers face the consequences,
As settlers put up barb-wire fences,
Too crowded, workers go crazy,
If you are poor it’s because you are lazy (WORK!),
Federal troops with an excuse to raise hell,
Pullman strike was holding up mail,
Populist Party wants silver coins, Knights of Labor
make workers join,
Haymarket riot, crash and burn, will the workers ever learn?,
Immigrants working hard for pay, Congress burns billions every day,
Keep protection high, surplus low,
Depression found them short on dough,
Cleveland repealed the Silver Act,
Farmers felt they got the shaft,
The Gold Standard Act was passed,
Gold backs all our cash, (AHHHH!).
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