I Got Some Leaders (Inspired by I Gotta Feelin')

Here are some things I know:

1. If you add salt to pasta water, your spaghetti will not stick together.
2. Gyarados is a water/flying type and therefore thunderbolt is doubly super effective.
3. Aside from being a delicious tea, Earl Grey was also Prime Minister of Britain.

I have a lot of time and a capacity for collecting knowledge of dubious use. I read newspapers, I google, and I rampage through Wikipedia articles like a university student with three hours left to finish their politics essay on “The Role of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac in Usurping American Economic Hegemony”.

But I can’t name Canadian Prime Ministers. I can recite every single line in 8 Mile, Eminem’s classic tale of gangsta rap culture in mid 90s Detroit. I can name all the members of the Fellowship, and probably throw in some Sindarin to boot. But I remain pathetically ignorant on some of the most influential people in my own country. My guilt is further multiplied because I know the American presidents. Ouch.

So I present:

“Canadian Prime Ministers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries” also known as “I Got Some Leaders”. It's inspired by the Black Eyed Peas’ "I Gotta Feelin’".

If you can’t tell Bennet from Boromir, if you think that Johnny A MacDonald either gave us apples or McNuggets, if you ever sat up late at night and thought, "Gee, I wonder who was responsible for constructing the position of Auditor General", this is for you.


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I got some leaders
Intent on forming a nation
‘67 is Confederation
Took three years so they all were quite pay-patient

I got a leader
in a Liberal-Conservative government
John A McDonald elected, he’s runnin’ it
With a bottle of scotch he be love, lovin’ it

While he is leader
BC and the North are uniting
Fenian forces we keep on fighting
Pacific rail Scandal is ignite-nite-ing

Alex Mackenzie
Stonemason out of school at 13
Refused to be knighted by the Queen
Supreme Court, Auditing, and RMC

Now Sir John Abbott
Selected quick
Mostly because
He’s not Catholic
Most famous quote?
“I hate politics”
He’s got brain cancer
and so retires

To John Sparrow Thompson we owe
Canada’s
Very first
Criminal Code
US Bearing Sea
Increased sovereignty
Tragically, heart disease
Dead before 50

Ch-Ch-Ch-Charles Bowell
Number five
He rocked the Senate
Not much the House
Power divide
Pushed him aside
Charles Tupper leads
For a lowly ten weeks

McDonald, McDonald, McDonald
Mackenzie,
Mackenzie, John Abbott, and next in
line John Thomspon, Thompson,
Thomson Thompson Thompson and Bowell
and Bowell and Tupper Tupper


Laurier’s leader,
serving four terms in succession
Quebec Liberal stronghold he strengthens
While the country increases possessions

While he is leader,
Boer War is causing a crisis
Founds Navy to build us supply ships
French Anglo relations divide, divide us

Borden’s PM (yeah)
For First World War (1918)
Insisted on (Yay)
Canadian Corp (we’ll fight as team)
Win lots of battles (BATTLES!)
Vimy and Ypres (Passeandale too)
Winnipeg strike (Unions)
Vs Mountie Might

Meighan at nine (nine)
Ten is King (Mackenzie)
Then back to Meighan (Pattern emerges)
Because of Byng
He reps the crown (Gov’nor Gen)
Won’t shut gov down (no shutting down)
The next election
Meighan losses again

McDonald
Mckenzie
John Abbott
John Thompson
Charles Bowell
Charles Tupper
Laurier
Meighan
King

McDonald
Mckenzie
John Abbott
John Thompson
Charles Bowell
Tucker
Laurier
Meighan
King

Bennet’s woe
30’s blow
We lost some stocks
stocks stocks stocks

Dustbowl roar
Farmers poor
Lost all their flocks
flocks flocks flocks

Men want work
Bennet “Jerk!”
hotels and yachts
yachts yachts yachts

New Deal’s in
Socialist win
Laissez-faire stops
stops stops stops

Third Reich, Adolf, Black shirt Benito
Facist, Expansion, Emporer Hitohito
William Lyon Mackenzie King
elected once more (more )
the Second World War
S-S-S-Second World War

I got some leaders
Perhaps they are slightly eccentric
Séances, affairs and alcoholics
But still have substantial successes

We got some leaders
That together constructed a country
Out of snow, immigrants, and no money
And we don’t know there names, ain’t that fun-funny?


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