Southern Colonies Song lyrics

Southern Colonies Song!!!

(tune to “Blood upon the risers”)

The southern colonies were ones of plantations and of wealth   

For the lucky ones, most squandered in the filth.

The riches of many acres were in not too many hands

And the rest were stinking poor.

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The plantation system stunted their economy.   

Tobacco, rice, and indigo and brutal slavery.

Aristocratic practices and few immigrants around. 

And the south was rising slowly.

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Southern Southern, they’re the Southern Colonies

Southern Southern; planter aristocracies

Not like wimpy Northerners or dopey Midlees

These are the southern colonies.

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Virginia was the first to come in 16 hundred 7

It started back in Jamestown with John Smith as captain, oh…

They wanted trade and profit for the new Virginia co.

And they starved while digging gold.

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Few lived through the starving time, Lord De la war killed Powhatans,

So much for Pocahontas and Smith’s would-be romance.

She married to John Rolfe instead who planted tobacco

And Virginia carried on.

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The Carolinas started in 1670

They sold foodstuffs to Barbados sugar plantations. (rice!)

In this they made close money ties and tried slavery too.

And they killed Savannah Indians.

Though north and south soon split, they had differences of their own. (1712!)

The north absorbed the poor and those outcasted and alone

They didn’t want the south’s plantation system as their home.

So they built a democracy.

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Georgia was the last colony to come.       (1733!)

It was a buffer state to protect from Spanish Florida.

It was a debtors colony and it was a melting pot

For German-Lutherans and Highland Scots.

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Though growth was stunted by the slow plantation system there.

The climate was unhealthy and there were slave restrictions there 

The Spanish kept attacking but Georgia one day would grow.

And that’s the thirteen colonies!

Thirteen thirteen they’re the thirteen colonies

Thirteen thirteen, don’t forget the colonies

Thirteen thirteen, we’re just trying to help you out!

This will be on the AP test!