This time around, there’s no better way to tell it than with the actual lyrics. All you need is a little scene setting – it’s the Democratic Convention of 1844, in Baltimore:
| In 1844, the Democrats were split. The three nominees for the presidential candidate Were Martin Van Buren, a former president and an abolitionist James Buchanan, a moderate Louis Cass, a general and expansionist. From Nashville came a dark horse riding up: He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump Austere, severe, he held few people dear |
And there you have it 
Referenced in:
James K. Polk – They Might Be Giants
I don’t intend to make a habit of simply quoting large slabs of lyrics here – it’s lazy, for one thing – but on this occasion, I felt an exception had to be made. There’s no way I could have summarised the same information as lucidly or as elegantly as this.
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