Horrible Histories - Pilgrim Rap lyrics

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We're the Pilgrim Fathers

You have heard rather

A lot 'bout our notions

Crossing the oceans

On our good ship Mayflower

But it's true our journey

Turned into quite a commotion

People report that we sported these hats

But that's not true I mean would you?

Anyway the main thing to say

We began the U S A

With our little band of religion fans

From the east midlands

We all believed slowly

That England was becoming less holy

So set up for Holland

'Cus there we had friends

But in the end seemed the Netherlands

Would never be the land, we planned

Couldn't stand to remain on that terrain

So again we rearranged

To start a new nation with our congregation

A new and calmer life took a farmer and a builder and his wife

And a cleric-a to find America

Oh it's a new world

It wasn't new to the natives

Still we thought we'd claim it

Yeah, it's the new world

I still remember 9th of November

The year 1620 and we saw plenty of land

We thanked god when we found ground

I kept calm but it didn't go as planned

Couldn't land on the sand

A month later though

We made it new Plymouth man

We claimed it the natives said not

But ran when we shot

Moved there it proved yeah

That life would be though

'Cus we didn't have enough

Of the right stuff

Did you know had no seeds we could grow

Though William Mullins had stacked

126 pairs of shoes in his pack

Now that's whack!

A fishing rod, a plough,

A pig, or a cow

Would have been a much better idea

But now there's no food for us to eat

Does this mean that we'll meet with de feet!

No fun in the new world

I'm glad we've arrived here

But will we survive here

Yeah, in the new world

People were starving

Our numbers halving

And when the winter winds blew

Even fewer liver through

It wasn't pretty in our new city

But the natives took pity even though

They didn't have to

Man called Tonto

Showed us how to grow maze

Caught eel for our meal

Build shelter in the baize

Tribe gave us a feast

A starvation ceased

In 1621 what they had done

Turned us back from the dead

To the living and to this day

That's why we have thanks-giving

In Massachusetts built a colony it's true

They say modern America was founded by our crew

It's a new world

But we can't call it England

Lets call it new England

Yeah, in the world

My home was in Plymouth

Lets call it new Plymouth

I got an idea lets call this New Hampshire

Wait I'm from Newcastle

Can we call it new Newcastle?

Nah!

It's a new world