What do you remember from your American History classes in high school? (anything at all, I taught American History)

[usonian]

36. Nada. Only a Lou Monte song. What did Washington say when he crossed the Delaware?

1. "Give me liberty or give me death"—these words will never die.
"We have just begun to fight" is a famous battle cry;
But what I really want to know ain't written anywhere.
Hey, what did Washington say when he crossed the Delaware?
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Oh, Martha, Martha, wish you were here tonight.
Oh, Martha, Martha, no pasta fazool-a tonight.

2. "Martha baked these pizza pies and now they're cold as ice.
We'll sell them to the local folks at only half the price.
Please row a little faster, boys. I got no time to kill.
Tonight I'm posing for my picture on the dollar bill.
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Oh, Martha, Martha, don't wait up for me tonight.
Oh, Martha, Martha, no Dardanella tonight."

The ellipses are Italian: (the way *I* heard it)

"Mme faccia 'nu fridd', mo tengo 'nu famm',
Mme faccia 'nu fridd', no tengo 'mu dann'."
[where "fridd'" is pronounced "freed" and is dialect for "freddo," or cold. Rough translation:"I'm freezing, I'm hungry, I'm freezing, I don’t have my long johns (mutante)"]