Here it is:
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 is in Florida, and Washington, D.C. / Santa Fe is in New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee
(Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know)
then Trenton’s in New Jersey, Jefferson City’s in Missouri / You got Richmond in Virginia, South Dakota’s Pierre’s up there / Harrisburg’s in Pennsylvania and Augusta’s up in Maine / And here is Providence, Rhode Island, down 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
(Hmmm… This city is just like my brother!)
Then 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 near Chesapeake Bay
(They have really good crab cakes here)
Then Cheyenne is in Wyomin’ and perhaps you make your home in / Carson City in Nevada, with its LED dome / 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, east of Utah, Salt Lake City
(But wait, there’s more!)
Halifax in Nova Scotia, Winnipeg in Manitoba / And the capital St. John’s is Newfoundland and Labrador’s / Next is Northwest Territories which has Yellowknife, Victoria’s / in British Columbia, and Yukon has Whitehorse / Iqaluit’s in Nunavut, parts of it look brown / and Prince Edward Island is home to Charlottetown / Edmonton, Alberta, and Ontario’s Toronto / New Brunswick, as with Fredericton, has my friend Nanto
(chuckles I’d sure love to “abwah” with him someday…)
Don’t forget I also gotta mention that itself of Ottawa / Quebec has its city, just like with Oklahoma / Leaving Canada, the final one’s Saskatchewan’s Regina / so let’s move to Pago Pago in American Samoa / US Virgin Islands has Charlotte Amalie / US Minor Outlying Islands down the sea / Saipan is over in the islands Northern Mariana / Puerto Rico has San Juan, and lastly Guam contains Hagåtña
That’s all the capitals there are!
NOTES:
- I put in “this city is like my brother” because St. Paul, MN, along with Minneapolis, is collectively referred to as the “Twin Cities”, and since I have a twin brother, that line checks out.
- I have changed out the “Utah where the buffalo roam” line because I checked the distribution of the buffalo population by state, and compared to other states, such as Montana and Nebraska, the buffalo population is way larger in said states than Utah. Look here for proof: https://www.aag.org/the-geography-of-bison-returned-from-the-brink/
- To add to my previous note, I chose “Nevada with its LED dome” in reference to the Las Vegas Sphere, located in Nevada, for those who are clueless about this.
- I also put in “parts of Nunavut look brown” because of how the country looked on a satellite. Go check Google Maps’ satellite view to see what I mean.
- If you are wondering who that “Nanto” person is, click here for more info: https://x.com/NantoTheDutchie
If you have any additional questions about my rewrite/extension of this song, you can leave them in the comments section of this post. I hope you all have a good one, and cheers to all! ;D