From the Beginning
Vocals - Jon Baxter
Bass - Nick Macchia
Drums - James Johnson
Guitar - Mr. Mastrota
Lyrics - Jon Baxter
Native Americans, or Indians, as they were called by the invading white explorers who broke down the wall between the west, and the east, by the way of the sea they found tobacco, silver, gold, and herbal tea. In with them came malaria, small pox and typhoid, the Indians had no choice, they're wiped out, now oh boy. Here come the Africans by
hundreds and thousands, they're put to work and beaten by the power hungry colonists.
Early settlements like Jamestown, New York, and Boston were hardly places for colonists
to walk in. There was famine, disease, fights against each other when all they had to
realize was that they were all brothers. In single nation living an American dream with
endless opportunities as long as you got steam to work real hard and help each other
out 'cause in America your happiness is what its all about.
As life went on and on in the colonies and all the mother countries we had helped to
please, wanted more and more as we produced less but there was brewing in Europe that
cleaned up our mess. It was the Enlightenment, a time of new thought by guys like Locke,
Copernicus, and Descartes. New sciences, philosophies, what else can I say? They
inspired new ideas, to brighten up our day. Meanwhile religion was surely getting
squashed, then came the Great Awakening and we were all washed. Cleaned, cleansed, from
all of our guilt because we went back to the roots on which religion was built. In Salem,
the witches, getting burned at the stake leaving dead, burnt bodies in the colonists
wake. All these new ideas, this new information led us to start to believe in a united
nation.
It's all about wars, treaties, colonization but all our studies are focused on one
specific nation. From birth, through hard times like the Great Depression we better
ourselves, yeah, we learn our lesson. Because history is by definition to find out the
things that we've been missing. And this specific type, yeah I must say we're learning
about the good old USA. The USA where the prayers pray with all the freedom we experience
every day. Even some dudes like Euclid and Newton are making it so we think that school
is no fun. In History class you know things are real different. We're the Rough Riders
and you better not be missing when we're making raps, where we're spittin' out rhymes,
we are saving the world one class at a time.
The British aren't letting us have a good time. William Pitt, George III, trying to
spit out rhymes about how we should pay without getting to represent. Stamp Act, Tea Tax,
man I gotta vent. I can't take this man, it's all outta line. They're shooting up my
friends and leaving them to die. So let's have a party called the Boston Tea we're gonna
make it so those British dudes are gonna want to pee their pants. Now put up your hands,
I can't understand why they're doing this man. We need to revolt, the time is right. Sam
Adams, Sons of Liberty, show us your might. So let's go and form a new nation. We'll rid
ourselves of the oppressive British taxation, write a new set of laws, separate good and
evil, a declaration that creates all men equal.
The new America where those are born free but there are very big problems for you and me.
We need to institute a new form of government. One that's not like the British and will
represent because there's no taxation without representation, but will we go too far to stop
a tyrannical nation? These are the Articles, hold together our land but that's barely
all they do so we need to give them a hand. So we crumple, and rip, and stomp them out
because we're running out of money, man what's that all about? All this drama is making
our county sick so we need to institute a republic. Three branches, checks and balances
and a right to bear arms, this Constitution will be used both near and far. The Bill of
Rights outline our freedom and rights now we'll show all the countries we got them in our
sights.
All songs and essays are the intellectual property of their respective authors and are protected under United States copyright laws. The image on the inside label is credited to Mark Hess. The CD design is the Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States as reproduced from Our Documents, 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives. History Raps & History Rocks is ™ Peter Mastrota 2001. A Music History of the American People is Copyright © South Studio Productions 2004. Site design is Copyright NuTech Web & Services © 2005. All Rights Reserved.
