The Best Of What This Country's Got

If you had any sense, you oughta be proud

You oughta be puffed up with pride

Hold your head high

Higher

The best of what this country's got

Was taken from the Indians

Taken from the Indians long ago

Take a pencil and list the things that really rate

Things that make this country great

Why, if all the facts were sifted

You'd find ev'rything was lifted

Yes, the best of what this country's got

Was taken from the Indians

Taken from the Indians long ago

Chattanooga, Tallahassee, Walla Walla, Omaha, Iowa

Mississippi River, Lake Mohegan and Niagara Falls

Medicine balls

Mohawk Indian carpets

Good luck Indian pennies

Cleveland Indian outfield

Indian corn

That old Indian summer

Oo-oo Indian love call

Downtown Indianapolis

Eskimo pies

Saratoga, Narragansett, Hialeah, Pimlico, Kokomo

Lackawanna seven, Susquehanna four, Algonquin five

And all that jive

Ten little, nine little, eight little Indians

When you get done, there are none little Indians

Anthony Quinn, I think he's an Indian

Indian nuts

And Totem Lodge

And Pipe of Peace

Kemosabe and Chief Cochise

Pontiac and Cadillac and Onondaga bric-a-brac

Tuscaloo, Sioux City Sioux

Tippecanoe and Tyler too

And you

The best of what this country's got

Was taken from the Indians

Taken from the Indians long ago

Way before the great Mayflower left that English dock

Headed for old Plymouth Rock

Your folks they were here in teepees

To welcome those British DPs

Yes, the best of what this country's got

Was taken from the Indians

This great land that we stand on

They were the first to land on

Long ago