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Kansas (i/ˈkænzəs/) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans."
For thousands of years what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly, when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States.
Step outside and feel the tingle
Trouble finds you every night
You wonder where nobody knows you
Your civil tone is not polite
You got no friends, you don't like people
You tried it once and they let you down
And after seven years you're still hurt and angry
And inside your head is an awful sound
Some say that trouble is my middle name
I find it very easy and I give out just the same
You don't want to mess with me
So stay out of trouble, don't cry
Stay out of trouble, you'll die
You're on the street the clock strikes 11
And it takes that seven years away
Now you're walking with that lovely lady
Just like that you can hear her say
"Well, I know for sure you ain't got the money
For an ounce of coke or a Cadillac"
I said, "It ain't no use in trying to fool me
A big woman like you has got to fight back"
Some say that trouble is my middle name
I find it very easy and I give out just the same
You don't want to mess with me
So stay out of trouble, don't cry
Stay out of trouble, you'll die, you'll die
You stay out of trouble, don't cry
Stay out of trouble, you'll die
Inside your head it sounds like thunder
And your room becomes an ugly shell
You get your car and you start the engine
And you drive with your right foot in hell
Well someone said, "Ain't that funny
Well I saw that boy just the other night
Went into this bar and really got rowdy
With his friends and him in an awful fight"
Some say that trouble is my middle name
I find it very easy and I give out just the same
You don't want to mess with me
So stay out of trouble, don't cry
Stay out of trouble, you'll die, you'll die
You stay out of trouble, don't cry
Stay out of trouble, you'll die, you'll die, you'll die