The Presidents  ©1995 Warner Brothers (from the ANIMANIACS) 

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Heigh ho, do you know

The names of the U.S. residents

Who the n became the Presidents

And got a view from the White House too

Of Pennsylvania Avenue

George Washington was the first you see

He once chopped down a cherry tree

President number two would be

John Adams and the number three

Tom Jefferson stayed up to write

The Constitution late at night

So he and his wife had a great big fight

And she made him sleep on the couch all night

James Madison never had a son

And he fought in the war of 1812

James Monroe’s colossal nose

Was bigger than Pinocchio’s

John Quincy Adams was number six

And it’s Andrew Jackson’s butt he kicks

So Jackson learns to play politics

Next time he’s the one that the country picks

Martin Van Buren, number eight

For a one-term shot as Chief of State

William Harrison, how do you praise?

That guy was dead in thirty days

John Tyler he liked country folk

And after him came President Polk

Zachary Taylor liked to smoke

His breath killed friends whenever he spoke

Eighteen fifty, really nifty

Millard Fillmore’s in

Young and fierce, was Franklin Pierce

The man without a chin

Follows next a period of spannin’

Four long years with James Buchanan

Then the South starts shootin’ cannon

And we’ve got a civil war

A war, a war down South in Dixie

Up to bat comes old Abe Lincoln

There’s a guy who’s really thinkin’

Kept the United States from shrinkin’

Saved the ship of state from sinkin’

Andrew Johnson’s next

He had some slight defects

Congress each

Would impeach

And so the country now elects

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Who would scream and rave and rant

While drinking whiskey

Although risky

‘Cause he’d spill it in his pants

It’s eighteen seventy-seven and the Democrats would gloat

But they’re all amazed when Rutherford Hayes wins by just one vote

James Garfield, someone really hated

‘Cause he was assassinated

Chester Arthur gets instated

Four years later, he was traded

Grover Cleveland, really fat

Elected twice as Democrat

Then Benjamin Harrison, after that

It’s William McKinley up to bat

Teddy Roosevelt charged up to San Juan hill

And President Taft, he got the bill

In 1913 Woodrow Wil…

…son takes us into World War One

Warren Harding, he does fine

It’s Calvin Coolidge next in line

And then in nineteen twenty- nine

The market crashes, and we find

It’s Herbert Hoover’s big debut

He gets the blame and loses to

Franklin Roosevelt, President who

Helped us win in World War Two

Harry Truman, weird little human

Serves two terms, and when he’s done

It’s Eisenhower who’s got the power

From fifty- three to sixty-one

John F. Kennedy, he gets shot

So, Lyndon Johnson takes his spot

Richard Nixon, he gets caught

And Gerald Ford fell down a lot

Jimmy Carter liked campaign trips

And Ronald Reagan’s speeches’ scripts

All came from famous movie clips

And President Bush said, “read  my lips”

Now in Washington D.C.

There’s Democrats and the G.O.P.

But the one in charge is plain to see

It’s Clinton, first name Hillary

The next President to lead the way

Well, it just might be yourself one day

Then the press’ll distort everything you say

So jump in your plane and fly away