[Lyric] EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT among the NATIVE AMERICANS (Mr. Nicky)

Part I

[Intro: John Smith]
"Uh oh," Yeah
Jamestown, London Co
Our settlers could barely farm
Now winter's here
It's starving time, the Powhatan stopped lending help
Thank you, Pocahontas, but there's no one else
I tried to show 'em, yeah
I tried to show 'em, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
These Indians want us English folk
To disappear like at Roanoke!

Part II

[Verse 1: Mr. Nicky & Chief Powhatan]
Just go back 'cross the Atlantic, we've no use
For your colonies, and the disease you've introducеd
You export our crops, glad Europe's diet has improvеd
Thanks for horses, but this Columbian exchange is ruthless
(You are a nuisance!)
Yeah, Colombus, the royals approved
Of try'n'a get to Asia with western routes
Thought he was in the Indies, this world is new
Making Spanish claims, Spain was paying for his ships and crews
Empire conquering starts, conquistadors want gold and loot
Like Hernan Cortes, snatching Mexico from Aztec rule
And Pizarro's men, wiping out the Incas in Peru
[Bridge: Inti & Mr. Nicky ]
They got small- smallpox
The Spanish say our defeat, was by Divine decree
A p-p-penalty, for offering human beings (Smallpox)
The missionaries convert our people and preach
Do what the missions teach, so you can work and eat

[Verse 2: Mr. Nicky & Juan Ponce de Leon]
In the eastern borderlands, Juan Ponce de Leon
Found Florida, but no Fountain of Youth (I'm old!)
Like Coronado saw "Seven Cities of Gold"
Were just adobe pueblos in what'd become New Mexico
Settle down there so France, and England won't
Put your soldiers up in, presidios
France is claiming the north Atlantic coast
Think they're gonna find a water route to Asia, but they don't
(Here's your Northwest Passage!)
So trap beavers, get furs, and send them home
They're the latest fashion, in France c'est bon!
Quebec becomes a busy trading post
Few farmers come, it's not worth it, it's too cold
Warm up to the Huron, and fight their foes
But their worst enemy is being exposed

[Bridge: Inti & Mr. Nicky]
To smallpox!
The Coureur de Bois like "Where'd they go?"
Smallpox!
Do what the missions teach
Smallpox; measles, typhus- smallpox
So you can work and eat
Part III

[Intro: Pocahontas]
Yeah!
Nap time
Yeah, yeah
See you folks in England!

[Chorus: Mr. Nicky]
They're the first Americans
With diverse cultures shaped by their environments (yeah)
Regionally mapped by ways of life and languages
Possibly their ancestors walked across a land bridge
Way back in the Ice Age, in the Ice Age

[Verse 3: Mr. Nicky]
In the Ice Age, that's when the ice gave
Chances to migrate
Water's locked in glaciers so there's land to cross from Asia
As they did their mammoth chasing
To the east and the south (And the south), they had to find (Some)
Different kinds (Of), food and tried (To)
Farm they started towns (Everything's), Utilized (No waste)
And revives (Yeah), Spirit is inside
All of life (Yeah), Nature's unified (But,)
Land's getting private (Yeah!), that's got them fighting (Yeah!)
Those disrespecting, their connection
Might just get the axe that becomes an artifact (Dig!)
From the Northwest Coast (Ay)
'Cross the Plateau (Ay)
Through the Great Plains in
To the Eastern Woodlands
To the Southeast and 'west and (East, west)
California ('Fornia)
The Great Basin (Basin)
We call them Indians, (But)
[Chorus: Mr. Nicky]
They're the first Americans
With diverse cultures shaped by their environments (yeah)
Regionally mapped by ways of life and languages (Languages!)
Possibly their ancestors walked across a land bridge
Way back in the Ice Age, in the Ice Age

[Verse 4: Mr. Nicky & Pocahontas]
Tell my where there's Frenchmen floating
Around our homeland like Marquette and Joliet
'Till La Salle says everywhere that feeds the Mississippi
All goes to France (France?)
King Louis's land (It's his?)
Louisiana, prepare to battle
With the Iroquois, they're taking furs straight to the Hudson
In New Netherland there's competition from the Dutchmen
Minuit! Bought Manhattan (Yeah)
And trade's expanding (Yeah)
But they'll be handing (Yeah)
New Amsterdam in (Yeah)
To the Duke of York as England's conquering for dominance
Ever since John Cabot came they think they own the continent