If you listen up, a story will be told Of people and power, greed and gold Railroads, Robber Barons, Carnegie Steel Morgan's got money, Ford's got wheels
Gold in the Yukon, gold in the cross Oil in Texas, and Rock's the boss These dudes had the House in those days Grant was a general, and then there's Hayes
Garfield drops, Arthur steps in Cleveland is followed by Harrison Cleveland is back, then McKinley (like the hill) TR and Taft, Wilson hates to kill
Muckrakers, Magazines, Sam McClure, Squealed on Rockefeller's Standard Oil Mark Twain, Jack London, Ida Tarbell And Old Mother Jones says raise more... well.....
Jim Crow is jumping, but Booker's got voice Black Folk, soul folk, Mr. DuBois Geronimo, Custer, a man named Horse A Wounded Knee will hurt, of course
Sweatshops, doors locked, Triangle Fire Twelve hour days and children for hire Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman Strikes Edison brings us electric lights
Skyscrapers, backbreakers, Brooklyn Bridge Gompers, Wobblies, Eugene Debs Immigrants, tenements, No Chinese Populists rise up, farmers get the squeeze
Down in Havana, blow up the Maine Teddy's Big Stick and war with Spain A canal in Panama, two brothers that float Ladies still fussing for the women's vote
The Gilded Age was full of extremes, Recite this rap you'll know what I mean