Album: Schoolhouse Rock!
Year: 1977
This post is just a campy 70s throwback designed to appeal to Generation X types, who luckily never had a Vietnam to thin our ranks out a little.
After Multiplication Rock and Grammar Rock, the Schoolhouse Rock powers that be decided to do America Rock in honor of the Bicentennial. I was pushing 14 when these came out, so I was aging out of the demographic, but Lynn Ahren’s “The Preamble” absolutely helped me with memorizing it, and “I’m Just A Bill” is still one of the best summations of the legislative process ever written.
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