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William Jennings Bryan Song

Would Be President #15, William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) Born in Salem, Illinois His dad was a circuit court judge He'd go on to study law Then settle in Lincoln, Nebraska Became an active Democrat Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives Championed free silver And the federal income tax The Cross of Gold speech caused a sensation It would get him the Presidential nomination Democrats called McKinley a tool of the capitalists And so Republicans called him a radical demagogue Socialist He would lose But he'd be back next time In the rematch Labeled McKinley as an Imperialist Defeated a second time Published a weekly paper called The Commoner Eight years later he'd return To face off against William Howard Taft The third time proved not to be a charm But to him this was no cause for alarm Served as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson Then became a leading defender of religious fundamentalism Argued against the theory of evolution As prosecutor and witness in the Scopes Monkey Trial Contrasted unfavorably against the defense attorney Clarence Darrow Days after the case he was dead But we can still recall the things that he said