Christopher ColumbusTune: Three Blind Mice

Three Great ShipsThree Great Ships

Sail the seas

Sail the seas

In fourteen hundred and ninety two

Columbus sailed the ocean blue

He found the new world that is true

Three great ships

George WashingtonTune: Yankee Doodle

There was a man named Washington

Virginia born and bred

He grew to be first president

He’s great is what they said

Farmer, general, president

Mt. Vernon was his place

Born at Popes Creek, Ferry Farm

A dollar bill, his face.

Abraham LincolnTune: Yankee Doodle

There was a man named Abraham

Lincoln, Honest Abe

He set about to free the slaves

In war between the states

Abraham born brave and strong

Born Kentucky way

16th president was he

His face is on a penny

Black and white

Fair and equal

One and all

Martin Luther King reminds us

That equality should guide us

Black and white

Fair and equal

One and all

Martin Luther KingTune: If You’re Happy and You Know It

My People By Langston Hughes

The night is beautiful

So the faces of my people

The stars are beautiful

So the eyes of my people

Beautiful, also, is the sun.Beautiful, also, are the souls of my

people.

Benjamin FranklinTune: My Darling Clementine

Mr. Franklin, Mr. Franklin

When you went to fly a kite

Did you see the sparks a flying

In the dark sky of the night

Electricity, electricity

Lightening bolts shot through the air

You discovered how to use it

Make it work everywhere