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US History: EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT among the NATIVE AMERICANS song by Mr. Nicky
To the tune of “Sicko Mode” by Travis Scott ft. Drake
Backing track property of Karaoke Version / Tency Music.
John Smith:
Uh oh. Yeah.
Jamestown, London Co.
Our settlers could barely farm, now winter is here
It’s “Starving Time”, the Powhatan stopped lending help
Thank you, Pocahontas, but there’s no one else
I tried to show them, yeah
I tried to show them, yeah
These Indians want us English folk
To disappear like at Roanoke
Chief Powhatan:
Just go back across the Atlantic, we’ve no use
for your colonies and the disease you’ve introduced
You export our crops, glad Europe’s diet has improved
and thanks for horses, but this Columbian exchange is ruthless (you are a nuisance!)
Yeah, Columbus, the royals approved
of trying to get to Asia with western routes
Thought he was in the Indies, this world is new
Making Spanish claims, Spain was paying for his ships and crews
Empire conquering starts, conquistadors want gold and loot
Like Hernan Cortes snatching Mexico from Aztec rule
And Pizarro’s men, wiping out the Incas in Peru
(They got smallpox)
Incan god:
The Spanish say our defeat was by Divine decree
A p-p-penalty for offering human beings (smallpox)
The missionaries
Convert our people and preach
Do what missions teach
So you can work and eat
In the eastern borderlands, Juan Ponce de Leon
Found Florida, but no Fountain of Youth (I’m old!)
Like Coronado saw “Seven Cities of Gold”
were just adobe pueblos in what would become New Mexico
Settle down there so France and England won’t
Put your soldiers up in presidios
‘Cause France is claiming the north Atlantic coast
They think they’re going to find a water route to Asia but they don’t
(Here's your Northwest Passage!)
So trap beavers, get furs, and send them home (uh)
They’re the latest fashion in France (C’est bon!)
Quebec becomes a busy trading post
Few farmers come, it’s not worth it, it’s too cold
Warm up to the Huron, and fight their foes
But their worst enemy is being exposed (to smallpox)
The Coureur de Bois were like, “Where’d they go?”
(smallpox/do what missions teach/smallpox, measles, typhus, smallpox/
so you can work and eat!)
(Yeah!/Nap time/See you folks in England!)
They’re the first Americans
with diverse cultures shaped by their environments (yeah!)
regionally mapped by ways of life and languages
Possibly their ancestors walked across a land bridge
way back in the Ice Age, in the Ice Age,
In the Ice Age, that's when the ice gave chances to migrate, water was locked in glaciers
So there was land to cross from Asia
As they did their mammoth chasing
To the east and the south (and the south)
Had to find (some) different kinds (of) food and tried to
farm, they started towns, (everything’s) utilized (no waste)
And revives (yeah) Spirit is inside all of life (yeah), nature’s unified but
land’s getting private (yeah), that’s got them fighting (yeah)
Those disrespecting their connection
Might just get the ax that becomes an artifact (dig!)
From the Northwest Coast (aye), across the Plateau (aye)
Through the Great Plains into the Eastern Woodlands
To the Southeast and 'west and (east-west) California (California) and
the Great Basin (Basin), we call them Indians (but)
They’re the first Americans
with diverse cultures shaped by their environments
Regionally mapped by ways of life and languages (languages)
Possibly their ancestors walked across a land bridge
way back in the Ice Age (In the Ice Age), in the Ice Age (In the Ice Age),
In the Ice Age (In the Ice Age), in the Ice Age
Then tell me why there are
Frenchmen floating around our homeland like Marquette and Joliet
until La Salle says everywhere that feeds the Mississippi
all goes to France (France?) , King Louis’s land (it’s his?), Louisiana, prepare to battle (yeah)
with the Iroquois, they’re taking furs straight to the Hudson
in New Netherland there’s competition from the Dutchmen
Minuit bought Manhattan, and trade's expanding
But they’ll be handing New Amsterdam in to the Duke of York
as England’s conquering for dominance
Ever since John Cabot came they think they own the continent
12 сен 2024
