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Before the Cartoon Network, Nickelodian, and the Disney Channel … we had Saturday morning cartoons.

For GenX, we were up at the crack of dawn every Saturday to watch Scooby Doo, Hong Kong Phooey, the Jetsons, Bugs Bunny, Shazam, Fat Albert, Land of the Lost ….

And those sneaky adults tricked us into learning with Schoolhouse Rock cartoons aired during the commercial breaks.  The good news … is that 30 years later, I can still tell you that …

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

So for the 4th of July … here’s a bit nostalgia:

Fireworks, Schoolhouse Rock

In 1776
There were fireworks too
The original colonists,
You know their tempers blew
Like Thomas Paine once wrote:
It’s only common sense
That if a government won’t give you your basic rights
You better get another government.

And though some people tried to fight it,
Well, a committee was formed to write it:
Benjamin Franklin, Plilip Livingston,
John Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson,
They got it done, (Oh yes they did!)
The Declaration, uh-huh-huh,
The Declaration of Independence
In 1776
The Continental Congress said that we were free
Said we had the right of life and liberty,
…And the pursuit of happiness!

Ooh, when England heard the news,
They blew their stack,
But the colonies lit the fuse,
There’d be no turning back
They’d had enough of injustice now
But even if it really hurts, oh yeah,
If you don’t give us our freedom now
You’re gonna see some fireworks!

And on the Fourth of July they signed it
And fifty-six names underlined it,
And now to honor those first thirteen states,
We turn the sky into a birthday cake.
They got it done
The Declaration, uh-huh-huh,
The Declaration of Independence
In 1776
The Continental Congress said that we were free \Said we had the right of life and liberty,
…And the pursuit of happiness!

We hold these truths to be self evident,
That all men are created equal
And that they are endowed by their creator
With certain unalienable rights.
That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness