Middle Colonies Song lyrics

Middle Colonies Song!!!

(tuned to “Virginia company” in Pocahontas)

On to the bread colonies

Where grain and plenty lie.

There’s farmers, fruit and furs and fish

and Indians and rye.                                                                                          

In 16 and 26  (1626)

New Amsterdam was settled

By the Dutch who wanted trade

and profit in the land.

They built many trading posts

Along rivers and bays.

No care about democracy,

They kept aristocratic ways.

And in the very first year,

Bought Manhattan for cheap

Only 24 dollars for

22,000 acres.

(from the Lenape!)

Then England took New Amsterdam

And made it into New York

(In 1665!)                                                            

Maryland was then settled

In 1634

Lord Baltimore wanted

All his Catholic friends the very best  

They passed the Act of Toleration

So this could be so (not for Jews)

In the meantime they

Planted a lot of tobacco.

Next came the great Delaware,

New Jersey after that.

Both were made by Sweden

and taken by the English brats.

Penn’s haven was created

In 1682

It was a Quaker haven but

More outcasts soon ensued.

They had a deep belief that

Liberty was for all (even Indians!)

They kept away from violence

And from military brawl.

And still formed a great colony

That welcomed each and all.