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Psaying 5G

G is for Great Men,

2Whose names you should always know,

3Because they come up in conversation quite often,

4And people will look down their nose at your if you ask who they’re talking about,

5Which means you’d better know the Great Men in history, ^qwhich I was never that good at, to be honest, although I got some of their names pounded into me, because it’s important to know at least something about them, even if it’s only their names,

6Including Great ^aGenerals and Admirals,

7Like ^bNapoleon, and ^cAlexander, and ^dJulius Caesar, and ^eEisenhower, and ^fMacArthur, and ^gWashington, and ^hWellington, and ⁱGrant, and ^jSherman, and ^kLee, and ^lStonewall Jackson, and ^mPershing, and ⁿNelson, and ^oFarragut, and ^pHalsey, and ^qNimitz,

8And Great Artists,

9Like ^rMichelangelo, and ^sLeonardo da Vinci, and people like ^tMonet, and ^uRubens, and ^vBotticelli, and ^wRaphael, and ^xLautrec, and ^yTitian, and ^zTurner, and ^aaRodin, and ^bbRembrandt, and ^ccVan Gogh,

10And Great Thinkers,

11Like ^ddPlato, and ^eeSocrates, and ^ffLocke, and ^ggRousseau, and ^hhThoreau, and ⁱⁱGoethe, and ^jjHegel, and ^kkKant, and ^llAdam Smith, and ^mmRiccardo Malthus, and ⁿⁿNietzsche, and ^ooFreud, and ^ppJung,

12And Great Leaders,

13Like ^qqLincoln, and ^rrWinston Churchill, and ^ssTeddy Roosevelt, and ^ttGeorge Washington, and ^uuQueen Elizabeth, and ^vvDisraeli, and Pitt, and Thomas Jefferson,

14And Great Writers,

15Like ^wwShakespeare, and ^xxWalt Whitman, and ^yyHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, and ^zzNathaniel Hawthorne, and ^aaaWashington Irving, and ^bbbJames Fenimore Cooper, and ^cccMark Twain, and ^dddEdgar Allan Poe, and ^eeeHerman Melville, and ^fffStephen Crane, and ^gggBooth Tarkington, and ^hhhSir Walter Scott, and ⁱⁱⁱAlexander Dumas, and ^jjjRobert Louis Stevenson, and ^kkkMilton, and ^lllKeats, and ^mmmChaucer, and ⁿⁿⁿHomer, and all the ^ooowriters who wrote the Bible, of course,

16And Great Musicians,

17Like ^pppGershwin, and ^qqqPorter, and ^rrrKern, and Goodman, and ^sssShaw, and ^tttHerman, and ^uuuHoagy Carmichael, and ^vvvTchaikovsky, and ^wwwBeethoven, and ^xxxRachmanioff, and ^yyyBrahms, and ^zzzBach, and ^aaaaMozart, and ^bbbbSchubert, and ^ccccLiszt, and ^ddddDvorak, and ^eeeeMendelsohn, and a bunch of others too probably, such as ^ffffDuke Ellington,

18And Great Religious Figures,

19Like ^aSt. Paul, and ^bSt. George, and ^cSt. Andrew, and ^dJesus Christ, of course, and ^eBuddha, and ^fConfucius, and ^gMohammed, and ^hSt. Francis of Assisi, and ⁱJoan of Arc, and ^jWilliam Jennings Bryan, and ^kSt. Peter, and ^lSt. Augustine, and ^mThomas More, and ⁿSt. John the Baptist, and ^oSt. John the Evangelist,

20And Great Scientists,

21Like ^pEdison, and ^qSalk, and ^rLouis Pasteur, and ^sCharles Darwin, and ^tIsaac Newton, and ^uMendel, and ^vLeeuwenhock, and ^wAlbert Einstein, and ^xWatt, and ^yEdison, and ^zGalileo, and ^aaPtolemy, and ^bbCopernicus, and ^ccKepler, and ^ddSkinner, and ^eeBacon, and ^ffMadame Curie,

22And Great Americans,

23Like ^ggAlexander Hamilton, and ^hhBenjamin Franklin, and ⁱⁱDaniel Boone, and ^jjJohnny Appleseed, and ^kkClarence Darrow, and ^llDaniel Webster, and ^mmBarbara Frietchie, and ⁿⁿEleanor Roosevelt, and ^ooBabe Ruth, and ^ppLou Gehrig, and ^qqSergeant York, and ^rrJimmy Stewart, and ^ssSam Houston, and ^ttFrancis Marion, and ^uuPhil Sheridan, and Will Rogers,

24Not to mention Great Villains and Traitors, who are often more interesting than really Great Men,

25Like ^vvBenedict Arnold, and ^wwHitler, and ^xxMussolini, and ^yyTojo, and ^zzQuisling, and ^aaaGenghis Khan, and ^bbbKaiser Wilhelm, and ^cccStalin, and ^dddHirohito,

26And I know there are lots of other Great Names too,

27Who you should know who they are,

28Because you can see that the world would be a pretty different place if they hadn’t come along.

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