Oregon Trail & *Contest*! (Post Malone's "Better Now" Parody)
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Description: Taking the #OregonTrail might have been hard but it certainly is #BetterNow that the settlers have huge plots of land. CONTEST IS CLOSED. Check out December 13th's video to see if you've won. MrBettsClass MERCH - bit.ly/MBCtshirt SUPPORT MrBettsClass - bit.ly/MBC_Patreon Historical Parody/Skits every Thursday Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/MrBettsClass Instagram: instagram.com/MrBettsClass Like on FaceBook: facebook.com/MrBettsClass We’re gonna hit the trail to Oregon, Oregon Gonna pack the fam into a wagon, a wagon Start off in Missouri and then we’re gone, then we’re gonna Gonna go to Oregon, gonna go to Oregon The whole journey is five or six months long, six months long Twenty-one hundred miles, man that’s long, man that’s long 400,000 settlers went on, they went on Gonna go to Oregon, gonna go to Oregon, oh whoa! Lewis and Clark, first to cross the country Trappers and traders then made the journey Marcus Whitman was a missionary That blazed the trail in the 1830s Waiting out for you there is a ton of free land Six hundred and forty acres for a wed man 1843 sees the Great Emigration Thousand people headed west in wooden wagons And we rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin Pulled by mules and oxen, they be strollin’ Packing spare wheels, guns, and ammunition Flour, sugar, coffee, salt and bacon By April or May we better get on, best be on Cross the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains, first mountains Through Snake River Canyon to Blue Mountains, more mountains On the way to Oregon, on the way to Oregon Dysentery, cholera, starvation, starvation Getting shot or crushed under a wagon, a wagon Attacks by Indians whose land you’re on, land you’re on On the way to Oregon, on the way to Oregon Still with the hardship of the journey, they came With the promise of a better life, A better life
