Pilgrim Rap

We're the Pilgrim Fathers

You may have heard rather

A lot 'bout our notions

Crossing the ocean

On the good ship Mayflower

Though 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 USA

Our little band of religion fans

From the East Midlands

We all believed slowly

That england was becoming less holy

So set off for holland 'cus there we had friends

But in the end, seemed the netherlands

Would never be the land, we'd 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-ah to find America

Oh, it's a new world

It wasn't new to the natives

Still we'd 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

Move 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

Although 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've been a much better idea

But now there's no food for us to eat

Does this mean that we'll meet, with de'feat?

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 staving

Our numbers halving

When the winter winds blew

Even fewer liver through

It wasn't pretty in our new city

But the natives took pitty even though

They didn't have to

Man called Squanto

Showed us how to grow maize

Catch eel for a meal

Build shelter in the bays

Tribe gave us a feast

Our starvation ceased!

In 1621, what they had done

Turned us back from the dead

To the living, and to this day

Thats 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

Let's call it new England

Yeah, it's a New World

My home was in Plymouth

Let's call it New Plymouth

I got an idea, let's call this New Hampshire

Wait I'm from Newcastle

Can we call it New Newcastle?

Nah

It's a new world