If George Washington Should Rise From the Dead

If George Washington Should Rise from the Dead By Elton Camp If George Washington should come to life again, I rather wonder if he’d scream and his head spin From what historians say, it would certainly seem The country he founded strayed far from his dream Entangelments with foreign nations he warned about He’d have to be astonished at how that one turned out The Constitution with its words so simple and clear Has been interpreted into something else he’d fear And his honored head he would most surely shake And think a public debt so huge has to be a mistake That States marriage between two men would endorse Would be so far beyond his wildest dreams of course But there might be much that George would think great But for it to come in a later poem, that idea please wait Or maybe some writer would like to pick up that theme And tell us how developments fulfilled George’s dream