The First Revolt

The First Revolt

The King was a monarch, meaning what he said went

But America wanted Republics, and a democracy

They wanted the people to be in control
Not one person, not one king

They wanted a president, a congress, and representatives

No taxation without representation, you’ve heard it before

They wanted to elect, not king hereditary junk

They wanted the poor to have a say

No princes and lords, knights and lady’s

No special positions from the favoring of Kings

That was England not America, as they might say

So here is the beginning of what they had to say

King George the third was a jolly old man

Always needing money, never thinking long

King George the third was a greedy old man

And he always went across the sea to get what he should need

The colonists were poor and they didn’t have much

And jolly old George taxed their money away

He past act after act with Parliaments help

Till the colonists were right ready to revolt

The Sons of Liberty formed, a group ‘gainst the King

For the freedom of the people, and the freedom of trade

The Sons of Liberty got the people all roused

Using Newspapers and Speeches, and pamphlets passed round

Now  Jolly old George was needing money again

So with parliaments help they worked on an act

The act was called the stamp act and it wasn’t to fair

It made the people have to pay to print anything

Newspapers and court documents, along with books

Pamphlets and papers, and bills and such

Everything was stamped with an official stamp

That cost money which went to, Good Old George

Now the people didn’t like it, not hard to see why

And the Sons of Liberty gave them all an idear’

Cause Jolly old George needed Stamp people to stamp

And to make and distribute, these all important stamps

So no one volunteered who had heard the speeches

And those who did, I wouldn’t want to be them

They were threatened and forced, in other such ways

To give up their posts, so no one stayed

When the Stamp act was passed, all I gotta say

Is that there were no stamps so America won

The Sons of Liberty tried to rouse the people again

But everyone went home, they were all tuckered out

And so began the march for liberty,

Now before all this craziness some other stuff happened,

Other acts had been passed, and taxes imposed

Like the molasses act, the woolen act, and other ones to

Like Taxes and tariffs and other restrictions,

Things that profited the king, but not the people

These things were the beginning of the great revolt

Which to England was a Crisis, but the opposite to the Colonists

And you know how this ends, with America on top

After Revolutionary battles, and a big long war

America had freedom, they won against the king

And got their Republic and Democracy.