LYRICS:

I'm Rosa Parks, my story marks the first step towards Civil Rights
Racial inequality, American policy, 'till I kicked off a fight.
What act of mine led havoc to ensue? How come I caused such fuss?
What shocking behaviour did I do? We-e-e-ell

I sat on a bus (you sat on a bus?)
I sat on a bus (you sat on a bus?)
You want to know why? (Go ahead, tell us)
I sat on that bus (you sat on the bus)

In the '50s all buses divided, whites in front, blacks behind

(You serious?)
If the bus filled up we had to give up our seats or we'd be fined

That's Ludicrous)
I made a stand in my hometown Montgomery, Alabama

(That's dangerous)
Refused to stand for a white man so they put me in the slammer

(Discourteous)
 

December 5 1955, my trial notorious
Black people stood side-by-side and no-one

Got on the bus (we stayed off the bus)
They stayed off the bus (we stayed off the bus)
I meant business (she inspired us)
So they stayed off the bus (we stayed off the bus)

We organised a boycott of public transportation
To win R-E-S-P-E-C-T and force new legislation.
Dreamed of the day the USA had no implementation
Of S-E-G-R-E-G-A-T-I-O-N - spells segregation!

From that day on we walked or cabbed led by Martin Luther King
Attacked by mobs our houses bombed, though peace was our thing

Our plight it made the national news which was mighty strange

(mysterious)
When word reached the President he had to make a change

(delirious)
One year on we'd finally won a victory momentous
The fight for national Civil Rights was begun
 

Cos I sat on a bus  (she sat on a bus)
I sat on a bus (she sat on a bus)
I sat on a bus (for all of us)
I sat on a bus (she sat on a bus)

I sat, I sat...

(Our story owes, a huge debt to Rosa)
(We all agree, she made history)
On the bus...

(She sat on the bus, for all of us)
I sat on that bus (she sat on the bus)
(She sat on the bus...)