One Lump or Two? (Boston's Tea Party)

ONE LUMP, OR TWO? 

Words by Gwendolyn Soper   ©2005

How many lumps

Of sugar will it be

To sweeten up the harbor

Dumped with tea, tea, tea?

We are the Sons of Liberty!

Pay attention East India Tea,

We’ll dump these chests of tea, by gum—

Stop monopoly!

Faces painted for this “caper”

To look like Native’s fierce.

We are whoopin’ and a hollerin’,

So listen with both ears!

Once the tea was tossed that night

Two hundred years ago,

It marked the turning point towards

Revolutionary war.

Poor Hutchingson the governor

Could only make one choice:

It’s war, and no more England boys,

We now fight for our own voice!!!

Take three hundred chests of tea

Plus forty more to dump;

One cube of sugar for each cup,

That’s 18 million lumps!

Toss the lumps off Griffin’s Wharf

To sweeten up the harbor!

It’s been bitter for two hundred years

Just waiting for the sugar.