AP US History (Oh No)

Intro

ska-la! hey-ya, skank it up, skank it up (ska-la)

Do-do-doo, doot-doo, doot-doot (ah!)

Verse

Yellow highlighter glow on the kitchen floor

Flashcards like a fortress by the bedroom door

Dates like drumbeats, blare at 2 a.m., oh man

Washington, Hamilton, then the tariff plan

Teacher says "analyze," my brain goes on strike

DBQ demon grins with a seven-point spike

Multiple choice witch hunt in a bubbling brew

I circle C but the curve says I should've knew

Ska horns cry out like a ticker-tape parade

While I'm chained to a timeline that my spine betrayed

Oh, the syllabus laughs, flips another page

I'm marching through chapters like a caffeine-caged stage

Pre-chorus

All the names on the wall, (watching) all the maps on the floor

Every treaty a riddle, every era a chore

I can hum the preamble but not the rubrics' law

Skank to the left, skank to the right, keep up, keep up, keep up, ah

Chorus

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

Write your thesis tight, write your thesis tight, (write it!)

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

Verse

Nightmare: linen robes, the Founders on parade

They quiz me in Latin and demand my essay grade

Reconstruction's a puzzle with missing screw and nail

My pencil's a shovel digging through a dusty trail

Civil War trumpet wakes up my algebra test

I trade my calculator for a clause express

Supreme Court shadows with a gavels' clap (clap)

I study precedent until my brain goes snap (snap)

Group projects ghosted me, I'm solo in the fray

We ska-skip footnotes while the clock ticks away

And that AP exam day feels like judgment day

But we hustle our answers in a brass-band sway

Pre-chorus

Stack the rubric high, (stack it) lay the paragraphs low

Synthesize the sources, let your thesis glow

Keep your intro tight, keep your intro right, (alright)

Skank to the left, skank to the right, keep up, keep up, keep up, oh

Chorus

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

DBQ-DBQ (da-da), LEQ-LEQ (ta-ta), answer like you know

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

Bridge

Trumpets like alarm clocks, trombone like regret

We dance with the timelines we can never forget

Flip through the flashcards, skank through the pain

Every rubric a riddle, every essay a train

Oh, when the bell rings, we pretend we're free

But we hum the compromises like a memory sneeze (ah-choo)

Ska horns salute while the syllabus plots

We march, we laugh, we cry, we pass the lots

Chorus

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

Write your thesis tight, write your thesis tight, (write it!)

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

AP US history, AP US history, AP US history, oh no

Outro

(ska-la, ska-la) doot-doo, doot-doot — fa