In a first attempt at using Chat GPT, I asked it to do the Gettysburg Address in the form of a rap song. This is the result. The feelings are mixed about this technology, but I cannot say that the machine did not give it a good college try.
Sure, here’s a possible version of the Gettysburg Address in the form of a rap song:
[Intro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It’s your boy, A-bra-ham
Comin’ at you from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Got somethin’ important to say
So listen up, y’all
[Verse 1]
Four score and seven years ago
Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, yo
Conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
That all men are created equal, without any opposition
[Chorus]
It’s the Gettysburg Address, gonna make it clear
Gonna tell you ’bout a war, gonna tell you why we’re here
Gonna dedicate this ground, gonna honor the dead
Gonna make sure their sacrifice was not in vain, instead
[Verse 2]
Now we are engaged in a great civil war
Testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can endure
We’re met on a great battlefield of that war
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place, for sure
[Chorus]
It’s the Gettysburg Address, gonna make it clear
Gonna tell you ’bout a war, gonna tell you why we’re here
Gonna dedicate this ground, gonna honor the dead
Gonna make sure their sacrifice was not in vain, instead
[Verse 3]
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
Which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced, no shirk
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us
That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
[Chorus]
It’s the Gettysburg Address, gonna make it clear
Gonna tell you ’bout a war, gonna tell you why we’re here
Gonna dedicate this ground, gonna honor the dead
Gonna make sure their sacrifice was not in vain, instead
[Verse 4]
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, not mundane
And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
That’s why we’re here, that’s our worth
[Outro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It’s been real, y’all
Remember the Gettysburg Address, and what it stands for
Peace out