My student teacher from Clemson decided that she really wanted to write a song to go along with our Westward Expansion unit. So, here are the lyrics. Enjoy and use this to help study for your test.
Hey, do you know how our country got so big, so big, so big, so big?
Pioneers traveled West by covered wagons, wagons, wagons, wagons
On trails used by Native Americans like Oregon and Santa Fe, Santa Fe
1849 in California, gold rush!
They packed up and said I’m leavin’ never looking back again
I found some riches sure to make me a rich man
No more that crowded land
We settlin’ that land
Yeah, we gonna get farmland, farmland
And we’re leavin’ never looking back again
So, tell the government that you wanna homestead
Cowboys, ranchers
Miners, farmers
How do you share the land like that?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh….
Now all this travel brought about a new railroad, railroad, railroad, railroad
Union and Central raced for more money, money, money, money
This made travel faster than they’d ever seen, ever seen, ever seen, ever seen
The East and West were now connected
They packed up and said I’m leavin’ never looking back again
I found some riches sure to make me a rich man
No more that crowded land
We settlin’ that land
Yeah, we gonna get farmland, farmland
And we’re leavin’ never looking back again
So, tell the government that you wanna homestead
Cowboys, ranchers
Miners, farmers
How do you share the land like that?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh….
Go West, go West, go West
Just tell ‘em to the left, left, left
Go West, go West, go West
Cause we gone and we gone and we gone
Go West, go West, go West
Yeah, we deserve nothing but the best
Go West, go West, go West
They packed up and said I’m leavin’ never looking back again
I found some riches sure to make me a rich man
No more that crowded land
We settlin’ that land
Yeah, we gonna get farmland, farmland
And we’re leavin’ never looking back again
So, tell the government that you wanna homestead
Cowboys, ranchers
Miners, farmers
How do you share the land like that?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh….
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