Presidential Minute

"Presidential Minute" is a song in the series, Schoolhouse Rock!. The song, performed by Jack Sheldon, teaches us about voting for the President.

Lyrics

Four years have passed It's time again to state the main event Election Day is drawing near We'll pick our president

Republicans and Democrats hold national conventions They built their party platforms to broadcast their intentions The candidates they nominate will surely have potential They'll have to campaign long and hard to prove they're presidential

With whistle stops and photo ops And great debates and TV spots Posters, pics, even dirty tricks They run for president

The key states are the bigger ones with larger populations They have the electoral votes it takes to win elections Abe Lincoln, Grant, and FDR, they all got here this way Be sure your mom and dad get out to vote Election Day

After whistle stops and photo ops And great debates and TV spots Election Day, we'll have our say And pick a president

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Media Schoolhouse Rock! • Schoolhouse Rock Live! • Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong Songs Schoolhouse Rocky Multiplication: My Hero, Zero • Elementary, My Dear • Three is a Magic Number • The Four-Legged Zoo • Ready or Not, Here I Come • I Got Six • Lucky Seven Sampson • Figure Eight • Naughty Number Nine • The Good Eleven • Little Twelvetoes Grammar: Unpack Your Adjectives • Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here • Conjunction Junction • Interjections! • Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla • Verb: That's What's Happening • A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing • Busy Prepositions • The Tale of Mr. Morton America: No More Kings • Fireworks • The Shot Heard 'Round the World • The Preamble • Elbow Room • The Great American Melting Pot • Mother Necessity • Sufferin' Till Suffrage • I'm Just a Bill • Three Ring Government • I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College • Presidential Minute Science: The Body Machine • Do the Circulation • Electricity, Electricity • The Energy Blues • Interplanet Janet • Telegraph Line • Them Not-So-Dry Bones • A Victim of Gravity • The Weather Show Money: Dollars and Sense • $7.50 Once a Week • Where the Money Goes • Tax Man Max • Walkin' on Wall Street • This for That • Tyrannosaurus Debt • The Check's in the Mail Earth: Report from the North Pole • The Little Things We Do • The Trash Can Band • You Oughta Be Saving Water • The Rainforest • Save the Ocean • Fat Cat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song • A Tiny Urban Zoo • Solar Power to the People • Windy and the Windmills • Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch • The Three R's Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips Theme • Hardware • Software • Number Cruncher Characters Schoolhouse Rocky • Lucky Seven Sampson • Bill • Interplanet Janet