How to memorize State capitols?

Why do you need to know the capitols of the U.S. states? There's almost 50 of them. Well, you don't really have to know it. I bet even the Americans themselves don't know all the capitols.

But here are some of the reasons:

• You are enrolled in American Studies course, (where you have to learn the capitols of the states)
• You aren’t enrolled in course, but you think you will be in “Who wants to be Millionaire?” one day, and you will need these.
• You must know them in order to impress people. (We are livin' in Amerika! Coca-Cola, Wonderbra! :P)

Whatever it is, I found a very easy way to memorize all those names in 1 hour.

What is it?

Animaniacs.

What?

It’s a cartoon song.

WTF?

Yeah, it’s simple. This is a piece of song from cartoon Animaniacs. Just watch it yourself, OK?

courtesy of Teachertube

There is the lyrics, from STlyrics.com

Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana
And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
There's Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
Then there's Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho.

Texas has Austin, then we go north
To Massachusetts' Boston, and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know.

Trenton's in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri
You've got Richmond in Virginia; South Dakota has Pierre
Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine
And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware.

Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
And Kansas has Topeka; Minnesota has St Paul.

Juneau's in Alaska and there's Lincoln in Nebraska
And it's Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
There's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan.

Here's Honolulu; Hawaii's a joy
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
South Carolina with Columbia down the way
And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.

They have wonderful clam chowder.

Cheyenne is in Wyomin' and perhaps you make your home in
Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam
Atlanta's down in Georgia, and there's Bismarck, North Dakota
And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home.

Salem in Oregon; from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas; Iowa's got Des Moines
Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its city
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City.

That's all the capitals there are!