Wakko America's 50 US States and Capitals

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Wakko America's 50 US States and Capitals
By Mel

Here's the song. You can copy and paste it into a word document to print better. The only way I know how to describe the tune is that it goes to the tune of the ice cream man song. If you don't know that tune, ask around.
Someone will probably know it, as I can't sing it for you over the Internet. This song is great and you'll be amazed at how quickly your students learn the state 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!