I’ve gotta hand it to the YouTube generation. Jake was struggling with learning not just where the states go on a blank map, but also then learning the capital cities. That’s when he took it upon himself to find a song to help him learn. Score another one for “Self-directed Learner!” He found this old-timey Animaniacs cartoon and we’ve been singing it ever since:
And now, Wakko Warner with the fifty US states and their capitals:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Indianapolis, Indiana
And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
There’s Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
Then there’s Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho
Texas has Austin, then we go north
To Massachusetts, Boston, and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee
Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know
Trenton’s in New Jersey north of Jefferson, Missouri
You got Richmond in Virginia, South Dakota has Pierre
Harrisburg’s in Pennsylvania and Augusta’s up in Maine
And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware
Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
Hartford’s in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
And Kansas has Topeka, Minnesota has St. Paul
Juneau’s in Alaska and there’s Lincoln in Nebraska
And it’s Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
There’s Madison, Wisconsin and Olympia in Washington
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan
Here’s Honolulu, Hawaii’s a joy
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
South Carolina with Columbia down the way
And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay
They have wonderful clam chowder
Cheyenne is in Wyomin’ and perhaps you make your home in
Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam
Atlanta’s down in Georgia, and there’s Bismarck, North Dakota
And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home
Salem in Oregon, from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas, Iowa’s got Des Moines
Sacramento, California, Oklahoma, and its city
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City
That’s all the capitals there are.
