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*** HISTORY ROCK *** (1974)
Elbow Room
Music & Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Sung by: Sue Manchester
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- One thing you will discover
- When you get next to one another
- Is everybody needs some elbow room, elbow room.
- It's nice when you're kinda cozy
- But not when you're tangled nose to nosy
- Oh, everybody needs some elbow...
- Needs a little elbow room.
- That's how it was
- In the early days of the U.S.A.
- The people kept coming to settle though
- The east was the only place there was to go.
- The president was Thomas Jefferson,
- He made a deal with Napoleon,
- How'd you like to sell a mile or two?
- >> <Or three or a hundred or a thousand?>
- And so in 1803 the Louisiana Territory
- Was sold to us without a fuss
- And gave us lots of elbow room.
- Oh, elbow room, elbow room
- Got to, got to get us
- Some elbow room.
- It's the west or bust,
- In God we trust,
- There's a new land out there.
- Lewis and Clark volunteered to go.
- Goodbye, good luck, wear your overcoat.
- They prepared for good times and for bad. (And for bad)
- They hired Sacajawea to be their guide,
- She led them all across the countryside.
- Reached the coast, and found the most
- Elbow room we've ever had.
- The way was opened up
- For folks with bravery.
- There were plenty of fights
- To win land rights,
- But the West was meant to be.
- It was Manifest Destiny!
- The trappers, traders and the peddlers,
- The politicians and the settlers,
- They got there by any way they could.
- >> Any way they could!
- The gold rush trampled down the wilderness,
- The railroads spread across from east to west,
- And soon the West was opened up for...
- Opened up for good!
- Now we jet from east to west,
- Goodbye New York, Hello L.A.
- But it took those early folks
- To open up the way.
- Now we've got a lot of room to be
- Growing from sea to shining sea.
- Guess that we have got our elbow room, elbow room.
- But if there should ever come a time
- When we're crowded up together I'm
- Sure we'll find some elbow room up on the moon.
- Oh, elbow room, elbow room
- Got to, got to get us
- Some elbow room.
- It's the moon or bust,
- In God we trust,
- There's a new land up there!
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