[ROSA PARKS]
I’m Rosa Parks, my story marks
The first step t'wards Civil Rights
Racial inequality, American policy
'Til I kicked off a fight
What act of mine led havoc to ensue?
How come I caused such fuss?
What shocking behavior did I do?
We-e-e-ell

I sat on a bus
(You sat on a bus?)
I sat on a bus
(You sat on a bus?)
You want to know why?
(Go ahead, tell us)
I sat on that bus
(You sat on the bus)

In the ’50s, all buses divided
Whites in front, blacks behind
(You serious?)
If the bus filled up, we had to give up
Our seats or we’d be fined
(That’s ludicrous)
I made a stand in my hometown
Montgomery, Alabama
(That’s dangerous)
Refused to stand for a white man
So they put me in the slammer
(Discourteous!)
December 5, 1955
My trial, notorious
Black people stood side-by-side
And no one
Got on the bus
(We stayed off the bus)
They stayed off the bus
(We stayed off the bus)
I meant busi-ness
(She inspired us)
So they stayed off the bus
(We stayed off the bus)

We organised a boycott of public transportation
To win R-E-S-P-E-C-T and force new legislation
Dreamed of the day the USA
Had no implementation
Of S-E-G-R-E-G-A-T-I-O-N
(Spells segregation)

From that day on we walked or cabbed
Led by Martin Luther King
Attacked by mobs, our houses bombed
Though peace was our thing
Our plight, it made the national news
Which was mighty strange
(Mysterious)
When word reached the President
He had to make a change
(Delirious)
One year on we’d finally won
A victory momentous
The fight for national Civil Rights was begun
'Cause I sat on a bus
(She sat on a bus)
I sat on a bus
(She sat on a bus)
I sat on a bus
(For all of us)
I sat on a bus
(She sat on a bus)
I sat, I sat
(Our story owes a
Huge debt to Rosa)
I sat, I sat, I sat on that bus
(We all agree
She made history)
On the bus
(She sat on the bus
For all of us
I sat on that bus
She sat on the bus
She sat on the bus)