03x01 - No More Kings

[bunniefuu]

[male narrator]
America Rocks starts with No More Kings.

[music starts]

♪ Rockin' and a-rollin'
Splishin' and a-splashin' ♪

♪ Over the horizon, what can it be? ♪

♪ The pilgrims sailed the sea
To find a place to call their own ♪

♪ In their ship Mayflower
they hoped to find a better home ♪

♪ They finally knocked on Plymouth Rock
and someone said, "We're there!" ♪

♪ It may not look like home
but at this point I don't care" ♪

♪ Oh, they were missin' Mother England ♪

♪ They swore their loyalty
until the very end ♪

♪ "Anything you say, King
It's OK, King ♪

♪ "You know it's kinda scary on your own ♪

♪ "Gonna build a new land
the way we planned ♪

♪ Could you help us run it
'til it's grown?" ♪

♪ They planted corn, you know
They built their houses one by one ♪

♪ And bit by bit they worked
until the colonies were done ♪

♪ They looked around yeah, up and down ♪

♪ And someone said "Hurray! ♪

[all cheering]

♪ If the King could only see us now
He would be proud of us today" ♪

♪ They knew that now
they'd run their own land ♪

♪ But George the Third
still vowed he'd rule them to the end ♪

♪ "Anything I say do it my way now ♪

♪ "Anything I say do it my way ♪

♪ "Don't ya get to feelin' independent ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm gonna force you to obey" ♪

♪ He taxed their property
He didn't give them any choice ♪

♪ And back in England
He didn't give them any voice ♪

[laughing]

That's called taxation
without representation, and it's not fair.

♪ But when the colonies complained ♪

♪ The King said, "I don't care" ♪

♪ "He even has the nerve
to tax our cup of tea ♪

♪ "To put it kindly, King
We really don't agree ♪

♪ "Gonna show you how we feel
We're gonna dump this tea ♪

♪ And turn this harbor
into the biggest cup of tea in history" ♪

♪ They wanted no more Mother England ♪

♪ They knew the time had come
for them to take command ♪

♪ "It's very clear
You're being unfair, King ♪

♪ "No matter what you say we won't obey ♪

♪ "Gonna hold a revolution now, King ♪

♪ "And we're gonna run it all our way ♪

♪ With no more kings" ♪

[man] We're gonna elect a president.

♪ No more kings ♪

[woman] He's gonna do
what the people want.

♪ No more kings ♪

[man] We're gonna run things our way.

♪ No more kings! ♪

[woman]
Nobody's gonna tell us what to do.

♪ Rockin' and a-rollin'
Splishin' and a-splashin' ♪

♪ Over the horizon, what can it be? ♪

♪ Looks like it's going to be
a free country ♪

[people cheering]