03x07 - Elbow Room

[bunniefuu]

[narrator] Everybody needs
a little elbow room.

[instrumental music playing]

♪ One thing you will discover ♪

♪ When you get next to one another ♪

♪ Is everybody needs some elbow room ♪

♪ Elbow room ♪

♪ It's nice when you're kinda cozy ♪

♪ But not when you're tangled
Nose to nosy ♪

♪ Oh, everybody needs some elbow ♪

♪ Needs a little elbow room ♪

♪ That's how it was in the early days ♪

♪ Of the USA ♪

♪ The people kept a-comin'
To settle, though ♪

♪ The east was the only place
There was to go ♪

♪ The President was Thomas Jefferson ♪

♪ He made a deal with Napoleon ♪

♪ "How'd you like to sell
A mile or two?" ♪

Or three or a hundred or a thousand ?

♪ And so, in 1803 ♪

♪ The Louisiana territory ♪

♪ Was sold to us without a fuss ♪

♪ And gave us lots of elbow room ♪

♪ Oh, elbow room, elbow room ♪

♪ Got to, got to get us
Some elbow room ♪

♪ It's the west or bust,
But in God we trust ♪

♪ There's a new land out there ♪

♪ Lewis and Clark volunteered to go ♪

♪ Good-bye, good luck
Wear your overcoat ♪

♪ They prepared for good times
And for bad, and for bad ♪

♪ They hired Sacagawea
To be their guide ♪

♪ She led them
All across the countryside ♪

♪ Reached the coast
And found the most ♪

♪ Elbow room we've ever had ♪

♪ The way was opened up
For folks with bravery ♪

♪ There were plenty of fights
To win land rights ♪

♪ But the west was meant to be ♪

♪ It was our manifest destiny ♪

♪ The trappers, traders
And the peddlers ♪

♪ The politicians, and the settlers ♪

♪ They got there by any way they could ♪

♪ Any way they could ♪

♪ The gold rush
Trampled down the wilderness ♪

♪ The railroads spread across
From east to west ♪

♪ And soon the rest was opened up for
Opened up for good ♪

♪ And now we jet from east to west ♪

♪ Good-bye, New York, hello, LA ♪

♪ But it took those early folks ♪

♪ To open up the way ♪

♪ Now we've got a lot of room to be ♪

♪ Growing from sea to shining sea ♪

♪ Guess that we have got
Our elbow room ♪

♪ Elbow room ♪

♪ But if there should ever come a time ♪

♪ When we're crowded up together ♪

♪ I'm sure we'll find some elbow room up
Up on the moon ♪

♪ Oh, elbow room, elbow room ♪

♪ Got to, got to get us
Some elbow room ♪

♪ It's the moon or bust, in God we trust ♪

♪ There's a new land up there ♪