Exploration Rap Social Studies

Exploration Rap Study Guide

Verse 1
To North America I come, a new life begun
Using rivers we love transportation
Aztecs, Mayans, and the Olmec
Some of the natives we saw on our trek
Chickasaws, West region of the land
Two rivers are their borders, that’s where they stand
The Creeks, Southern Middle Tennesee
Below Murfreesboro a central city

Chorus
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho… just go with the flow

Verse 2
Living in the middle we call the Shawnee
Using wampum for their tradin’ we call it money
For the Cherokee, nothing could be finer
Between Middle TN and North Carolina
Native Americans fighting their own tribes
Haudenosaunee league created by Iroquois
“We formed our league to stop the hate,
A land of peace - what we’d like to create.”

Verse 3
Americans Indians seen many horrors
Worst to appear European Explorers
Brought with them so many things that please
The worst thing they traded was a nasty disease
Ponce de Leon Ponce de Leon
Atlantic coastline was where he sailed along
Exploration madness maybe insane
Up the St Lawrence River sailed Champlain

Chorus
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho… just go with the flow

Verse 4
Desoto and La Salle Desoto and La Salle
Mississippi river from the head of the bow
“Exploration across the borders” is my motto
America to Mexico explored Coronado
Desoto, heading west across the nation
NC to SE-T the destination
Tennessee River then Alabama to the sea
U-Turn west to Mississippi

Verse 5
The explorers had reasons, they came from the west
To find new riches they thought were the best
“Head-strong” exploration is what they’d boast
Populating states along Atlantic Coast

Chorus
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho! Here we go,
Land-Ho… just go with the flow