Misc Cartoons – Schoolhouse Rock - Elbow Room (Guitar)

*transition I like to do at the end of a verse:
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One thing you will discover

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When you get next to one another

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Is everybody needs some elbow room, elbow room

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It's nice when you're kinda cozy, but

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Not when you're tangled nose to nosey, oh

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Everybody needs some elbow, needs a little elbow room

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That's how it was in the early days of the U.S.A.

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The people kept coming to settle though

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The east was the only place there was to go

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The president was Thomas Jefferson

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He made a deal with Napoleon

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How'd you like to sell a mile or two

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And so, in 1803 the Louisiana Territory was sold to us

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Without a fuss

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And gave us lots of elbow room

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Oh, elbow room, elbow room

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Got to, got to get us some elbow room

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It's the west or bust

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In God we trust

          C            D
There's a new land out there

C
Lewis and Clark volunteered to go

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Goodbye, good luck, wear your overcoat!

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They prepared for good times and for bad (and for bad)

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They hired Sacagawea to be their guide

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She led them all across the countryside

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Reached the coast

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And found the most

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Elbow room we've ever had

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The way was opened up for folks with bravery

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There were plenty of fights

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To win land rights

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But the West was meant to be

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The trappers, traders, and the peddlers

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The politicians, and the settlers

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They got there by any way they could (any way they could)

C
The Gold Rush trampled down the wilderness

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The railroads spread across from east to west

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And soon the rest was opened up for - opened up for good

    F
And now we jet from east to west

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Goodbye New York, hello L.A.

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But it took those early folks to open up the way

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Now we've got a lot of room to be

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Growing from sea to shining sea

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Guess that we have got our elbow room (elbow room)

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But if there should ever come a time

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When we're crowded up together

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I'm sure we'll find some elbow room . . . up on the moon!

    C
Oh, elbow room, elbow room

F                          C
Got to, got to get us some elbow room

         F       C
It's the moon or bust

   F      C
In God we trust

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There's a new land up there!