I lived in Rhode Island, then moved five miles, and now live in Massachusetts – most of my friends live in little Rhody. My submission for an unofficial Rhode Island state song.

There’s an iceberg afloat in Botany Bay
The size of the state of Rhode Island
There’s a hole in the ozone that won’t go away
The size of the state of Rhode Island
There’s a forest fire raging out in Montana
A tropical storm just off of Havana
They just found the world’s biggest banana
The size of the state of Rhode Island

There’s a swath of the rainforest clear cut each day
The size of the state of Rhode Island
There’s an asteroid circling close by us, they say
The size of the state of Rhode Island
There’s a caribou herd I saw on TV
And General Motors has a new SUV
Donald Trumps ego is said now to be
The size of the state of Rhode Island

If there were a prize for comparing, Little Rhody would win it
We know all about it, ‘cause hey, were here in it
And driving across it takes forty-five minutes
That’s the size of the state of Rhode Island

Rhode Islands’ the size of a spreading oil spill
Off of the coast of Bahia
Rhode Island’s the size of a giant landfill
Somewhere in the Crimea
It’s the size of a ranch on the west Texas plains
It’s the size of a cave in the south part of Spain
Just how big is that, you ask, we will explain
It’s the size of the state of Rhode Island

Now it may annoy you and cause you despair
That they use little Rhody by which to compare
But if we weren’t here, then they’d use Delaware
‘Cause it’s the size of the state of Rhode Island

There’s a baker in Omaha that just made a pie
The size of the state of Rhode Island
There’s a plasma screen TV that you ought to buy
The size of the state of Rhode Island
There’s a red tide arising and making a stink
There’s a fungus that’s growing ‘neath my bathroom sink
And this song is over, so I need a drink
The size of the state of Rhode Island

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