Celebrate Beantown: The Hub of America

Trimountaine we first were dubbed

For three hills that once were here.

But Puritans renamed it “Boston”

After their England hometown dear.

The Hub, we proudly hail thee!

Birthplace of liberty.

Spokes of education and civility

Radiate from thee.

More than sixty universities

And colleges in Boston Great

Boast more students in our town

Than any city in the states.

Three-hundred-fifty years of history

Cloak Boston with great honor

We are a living museum

Making history by the hour.

“The Athens of America”

Another nickname, if you please,

Since we had the first of many things:

First schools and free libraries.

Who led the way to end slavery?

Bostonians became the heart

Of abolitionists who paved the way

Before the Civil War.

“Banned in Boston” was a boast they made

And now joke about today.

New fangled art or theatre

Went against the Puritan way.

Celebrate Beantown