Here comes Ben Franklin, he's been printin' Poor Richard's
Glasses on his eyeballs, he investigator
Studies electricity
Flies a kite, if lightning strikes, he sure will be pleased

Here come James Madison and Thomas Jeffer-
Son and Patrick Henry and the Adams cousins
Tom says, "Men are made equally"
From the British monarch we are goin' to be free
Hang together....or hang....separately

Their big production was a Declaration
Of our Independence from the British Empire
They said, "We're all endowed with rights"
After they had finished, Franklin gave this advice:
Hang together....or hang....separately

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In eighty-seven it's a Constitution
That they made in Philly, where a woman asked him
She say, "What have we begun to reap?"
It is a republic, ma'am, if it you can keep
Hang together....or hang....separately

Hang together
Hang together
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