Well it happened right here several million years ago That two continents collided with a big heave-ho They pushed and they shoved with a powerful motion Till the mountains rose up out of the big blue ocean
A few million years later, the Indians appeared Then DeSoto came along and he did something kind of weird In Florida he met the Apalachicola tribe So he told the map makers 'go ahead and inscribe' So they put the name down, but by then it was too late Appalachia named for those who never left the sunny state
Appalachia rappin' atcha mountain rap
Now as far as we can tell, they're the oldest things we've seen So pay tribute to these mountains if you know what I mean Smokies, Blue Ridge, Shenandoah, Allegheny Catskills, Greens, and Berkshires and there's even more to see Adirondacks and the Poconos, the Whites into Maine These are all the mountains in the Appalachian chain