Schoolhouse Rock! The Preamble 

How many young people were positively impacted by this series. I know I was .

In my Freshman history class, the teacher offered $5 to anyone who could recite the preamble. I was the only one with my hand up. Thanks Schoolhouse Rock! Easiest $5 I ever made.

It does my heart good to see kids still use this song to memorize the Preamble. I was a kid when this first aired, and every kid in my generation would quietly sing this song to themselves during social studies exams so they could remember the words.

whoever sings this has a BEAUTIFUL VOICE i sing along to this every time i hear it

I think even the politicians need to listen to this. They’ve forgotten the Preamble.

If you’re like me, and trying to remember the preamble of the constitution, heres where it starts: 1:01

And how many people can still recite the Preamble to this day because of this song? I just wish they'd been around when I had to memorize the Gettysburg Address back in fifth grade!

I'm a child of the 70's and Canadian. Once our neighborhood got cable and we could watch American tv I recall all of the school house rock cartoons. They were perfect for kids. Put all 36 of them back into schools and the next generation of children of America could save the Union.

Who's watching this in 2024

1:01 we the people in order to form a more perfect union establish justice insure domestic tranquillity provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of america

They should return this to television for the younger generation. Because its good for them to learn it.

You know it is a great learning tool when I can still sing along 50 years later! Well done to the song writers.

Grew up in the 70s . Watching cartoons on a Saturday morning was a huge deal. School house rock taught us a lot💜🇺🇸

Okay, how many people here can SAY the Preamble without singing it?

WE GETTING OUT OF THE 1800 WITH THIS ONE 💥💥💥💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥

Beautiful preamble. And we need it now more than ever to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.

This song gives me nightmares.. *Shivers from flashbacks of Elementary teacher playing this song on repeat*

Who else got happy when they saw their home state appear on the map?

After they stopped showing these on Saturday mornings, I think kids got a little dumber.

Not gonna lie, I'm rewatching this because it came up in one of my grad school classes... and I'm still singing along to all the words even though it's been YEARS since I last watched School House Rock.

This song actually helped me on a Civics test in 9th grade. I just sang the song in my head and wrote the preamble on the test. A+. America Rock is my favorite Schoolhouse Rock, but they are all good. Its like comfort TV now. It reminds me of calmer times.

I was in grade school in the 70’s, and to this day I can still recite the Preamble by singing this song!

RIP, George Newall. You did a good thing here. ❤️

THIS GOES HARD DAAAAMN

I can still sing it to this day. And I’m 58 years old. Schoolhouse rock was such a blessing to us in the 70s. I learned so much from it in all sorts of subjects.

Know the Preamble by heart

I like to play this video before I go to bed every night. It gives me good dreams. I love this country. And so do so many of my fellow Americans. Patriotism for our country is still strong. We know what is right and what is wrong. The United States of America is the best nation on the planet. God Bless and... USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!!!!

2:27 Take a look at the 8 names you can see clearly in this voting Booth. Tom Yohe was one of the key animators who worked on Schoolhouse Rock. Sal Faillace was the creator of Rocky & Bulwinkle and Peabody's Impobable History. George Newall was one of the composers on Schoolhouse Rock famous for writing such songs as Unpack your Adjectives, This for That, The Energy Blues and one of my personal favorites: I'm gonna send your vote to college. Rad Stone is short for Radford Stone the producer of Schoolhouse Rock. George Cannata was in the animation department for the 1968 Spider-Man series, the 1966 Captain America series and The New Scooby-Doo Movies in 1972. Hal Hoffer was the producer of The Berenstain Bears Easter Surprise. Lynn Ahrens is one of two people on this list still alive. she wrote and performed several songs for Schoolhouse Rock including this one. her other songs include A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing, Interjections, The Tale of Mr. Morton, No More Kings, Elbow Room, Fireworks, The Three-Ring Government, A Victim of Gravity, Interplanet Janet, Do the Circulation, The Body Machine, Telegraph Line, The Weather Show, The Hardware song from Computer Rock, Tax Man Max, which she wrote with her frequent collaborator: Stephen Flaherty, and one of my personal favorites: The Great American Melting Pot. Finally, Niel Costa is a barrister from Gibraltar.

We had a pop quiz in my 10th grade American History class in 1982 where we had to write the Preamble. Half the class started humming this song as they worked through the quiz. It was pretty sweet.

Im in 10th grade and my S.S teacher told our class that if any of us recite this, we get extra credit points on our next test so i came back to this just to memorize it for tomorrow

I remember back in 2005 my Jr. High history teacher had us watch these cartoons. I hope there's still some teachers out there showing these great cartoons to their classes.

I still love this and i miss the America we have lost because it's gone. This country we have now, i just don't know what it is anymore. These kids now, they don't understand what it cost for them to have the freedoms they have and the ones that are slowly slipping away from us. They won't see it until it, finally, inconveniences them and then it will be a little too late.

Such a great, educational song. Still hasn’t left my mind from when I first heard it in 5th grade when I was 11.

Thank you to all those who made Schoolhouse Rock possible. Bob Dorough, Blossom Dearie, Grady Tate, Lynn Ahrens and so many others.

This is how I memorized the preamble and it still resonates 40 years later.

Just imagine if more school lessons were taught via song -- the kids would not only remember but would actually enjoy school.

2023 WATCHING AND SINGING THIS...

This got me an A+ in 8th grade American History. I still cannot RECITE the Preamble. But I can Sing it!

As kids being exposed to schoolhouse rock on Saturday mornings was a true gift. It was not until I was an adult going to college when I realized that I had been learning things via these great cartoons.

When I was in 8th grade, way back in 1978, my Social Studies teacher gave the class a weekend assignment to memorize the Preamble and recite it to him on Monday. By sheer coincidence, this cartoon aired Saturday morning. Needless to say, the whole class scored a 100 on the assignment, which the teacher said had never happened before. He thought we all studied together in groups, and we never told him different.

i had to memorize the preamble in the 5th grade back in 1997 and thanks to SHR, i was able to learn it quick and have never forgotten it and i am almost 30 years old!

It’s Constitution Day... I learned it by 🎤 🎶 🎵 Singing this song in a TV Commercial growing up...Catchy Tune...Let’s Sing it Together... PREAMBLE: WE THE PEOPLE... IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION... Establish JUSTICE Insure Domestic Tranquility... Provide for the Comman Defense Promote the General Welfare and Secure the Blessings of LIBERTY To Ourselves and our Prosperity To Ordain and Establish This CONSTITUTION... For the United States 🇺🇸 of AMERICA!!! Yay!!!

This was my introduction to the Preamble.

I have to memorize the preamble...this is helping...

Catchy songs like this are the greatest way to teach...and REMEMBER facts. This song is GOLD!

This made me cry. To think how far we as a nation have fallen.

When I was in school, I was required to memorize the Preamble and recite it in class. I must’ve rewound this section at least 10 times before I felt comfortable enough. The rest of my class stumbled over it…that was until I went up and sang it. Everyone looked at me completely gobsmacked. I was the only one who got it perfect.

Randomly get recommended this video in 2024. I’m 30 and I remember singing this in the 8th Grade.

Thanks for the upload. Takes me back my the Saturday morning cartoons of the 70's!!

In these dark times this song is almost melancholy. We will come back together one day.

I love that the composer's name shows up on the voting levers.

I can't believe that are teacher is making us sing this song for extra credit. I love school house rock. ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!

Bro we still memorizing this

I love this song it’s so catchy ❤

“We the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessing of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.” - Preamble of The U.S. Constitution, 1787.

I remember this in 3rd grade and still great to sing along. Wrote a essay on this in 4th grade of why the constitution means everything to America and to its people got A+ and a award too ❤️❤️❤️😄

As an older student, I'm enrolled in a PoliSci class, but this came out when I was in junior high, and we all sang this when we had to take the test on the preamble in the 1970s. I'm glad it's still around!

Perhaps its time for us to set our congress and the senate down in front of this video an remind them of there responsibilities

That brings back some Saturday morning memories

This is when people actually loved being American and actually told how great this country is. It's not perfect, but it sure is the best there is! We need something like this to be taught now a days! Stop trying to rewrite history and push this hatred of America!

This is the way I learned it

By singing the Preamble is the only way i can recite it. Thanks schoolhouse rock!

I was in 7th grade when Mrs Sikcowski told me I would never forget this song. I'm 35 and she was 100% right. Now, my daughter is starting to learn about this, and she said she will never be able to memorize it. I told her she would, and she will never forget it lol

Childhood. Should still be shown.

I grew up in 70's, bought all the cassettes to play in the minvan when my oldest was a baby...all three grew up listening to them.

Shout out to Schoolhouse Rock and this video for making me a 100 on my Preamble recital back when I was in 5th grade. (1996)

62 years old and I can still sing this! What a powerful way to memorize the preamble to the constitution. " We the people..."

Thank God I grew up with these. Most kids today dont know a dang thing about the Constitution. Most folks think they know but they dont cause if they did things would be alot better today.

wow love this song so beautiful i want to marry it

they played these over & over on saturday morning cartoon block in the early 70's & would pound the message into your head, sometimes 2 in a row, these really do help kids with a catchy jingle & very simple to remember. i acually became stuck on a question on a test & played the jingle under my breath (conjuction junction & adjectives song) & got the answer right.

I remember watching this in Mrs. Saums’ fifth grade history class in 2012. When we had to recite the preamble, the boys simply spoke it, but the girls had no problem singing it. Good times.

I’m in my sixties and I still remember this song. I still think of the song to remember the preamble.

As a child, I heard this (along with other Schoolhouse Rock songs) on Saturday mornings. We heard them so often that they never left our minds. As a result, when I needed to know the preamble, I remembered this song and was able to write it out word for word without having to study it! Schoolhouse Rock is incredible and is a fun and memorable way for children to learn and remember throughout their lives!

So using this for my college history class

When covid wasn't here we were suppose to sing this but the day we were gonna do it it started raining then after since I practiced so much I would be like im bored well you know there is one song that I can listen to

I must of listened to this a whole lot as a child because I've had this memorized for over 5 years without even trying.

I just here 8th graders in my class singing this and I love it so much.

This saved my life in U.S. Govt. Now as an adult out in the world i Sing this along when i read it on my 🇺🇸 Passport everytime im visiting another Country when i travel 👏❤🇺🇸

I'm 58, and I still remember the preamble from this song.

This little jewel taught ME the preamble in 78 or 76 or so.. and when our 5th grade class went to D.C in the fall of 78..I already KNEW the prermble..

In all honesty: you have to memorize the preamble for a quiz and you’ve had this song stuck in your head for the past few days

Good memories , and a great teaching tool .

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

In our SS class we asked if we could sing it when we recited it. I can't to this day unless I sing it in my head and then say it, pause to sing in my head My kids don't sing it and they don't know it

I used to love this song! It’s so catchy! I was like, 7 or 8 in the 70s when SHR used to be on tv & it was so fun. I’m glad they’re on yt. I can walk down memory lane & get a smile🤗.

1:01 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

This is awesome..who remembers????????

Got me through my junior high, high school, and college Constitution tests. Thank you, SHR!

Love this- great memories from about 45 years ago for me. God bless America.

I recently was at the National Archives, and this naturally was going through my head as I saw the Constitution. To read these words off the actual original document was a powerful moment for me.

Remember when they used to play things like this for our children? I was one of those children in the 1970s. Far cry from the poison children are being fed today

I was 8 years old when this was played during Saturday Morning cartoons. I loved Schoolhouse Rock and this song in particular and I learned it by heart. When I was 11, our assignment was to recite The Preamble in front of the class. We were instructed that we were NOT allowed to sing it, because the teacher was aware that every kid knew this song. It was difficult, but I was able to recite The Preamble without singing, but only because of this song. I just had to slow down and think and also remember to add after “We the People…”, the words “…of the United States of America…”. Here I am 44 years later…still able to sing along. The songs of Schoolhouse Rock weren’t always entirely accurate, but I learned so much from them and they made me curious to learn more. These were amazing teaching tools back then and it’s a shame something similar doesn’t exist anymore for kids today. Now it’s all Baby Shark or some other mindless drivel. Bring back new SHR songs for today’s world!

This helps me study for my test. Thx!!

I’m incredibly jealous of those who where lucky to grow up on this show

This song is the reason I can still recite the Preamble today. Not that it matters.

This is how I learned the Preamble to our Constitution....and I still know every single word.

Love this song...I cant stop singing it, and Im almost 60 lol.

this song saved me on a test. Had to know the preamble. I sung it in my head until I had it all on my page.

Congress and Senate need to see this and sing along before they start their sessions.

The preamble is beautiful in its roots. Wish it were true today but we’re nowhere close to it sadly.