Wakko's America

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Wakko's America"

"Wakko's America" is a song from Animaniacs sung by Wakko Warner. It appears in an episode segment that parodies Jeopardy! while the Warner siblings are at school, where Wakko gets the daily double, bets all of his points, and is told to name all of the fifty states of the United States of America and their respective capital cities. Wakko takes out a fiddle and begins to sing.

The song starts with a map of the United States and the melody is based on the tune of Turkey in the Straw, naming every state and its capital city. As he sings, he points to each state so it glows and a star appears, representing the capital city's location in that state.

When the song is finished, Wakko is disappointed to find out that his answer is counted as incorrect, as he forgets to answer in the form of a question, which is the format done on Jeopardy! He then proceeds to break his fiddle over his head, knocking himself out cold.

1 Lyrics
2 Notes
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Lyrics

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've 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.

[edit] Notes

Wakko says "Jefferson" rather than Jefferson City as the capital city of Missouri.
Wakko refers to Oklahoma's capital city simply as "its city" rather than Oklahoma City.
The line "And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home" is a reference to the Kentucky state song, "My Old Kentucky Home".
Wakko pronounces Pierre as "pee-YAIR"; the city's name is actually pronounced "peer".
The song deviates from "Turkey In The Straw" in the final line, "That's all the capitals there are!", which is instead set to the classic musical couplet "Shave and a Haircut".
The line "Salt Lake City out in Utah where the buffalo roam" references the first line in the classic Western ballad "Home on the Range", "Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam". It is notable that despite the line referencing Utah, "Home on the Range" has been the state song of Kansas since 1947.
Wakko mentions Washington D.C., even though it isn't a state capital, nor in any state, but is the country's capital. This may also fall under poetic license.
In a cameo appearance on Freakazoid!, Wakko starts to sing this song but is quickly interrupted by the show's titular character wanting to know what he's doing.
Concord, NH is pronounced incorrectly.