→the information for the answer. One thing you will discover
When you get next to one another
Is everybody needs some elbow room, elbow room.
It's nice when you're kinda cozy
But not when you're tangled nose to nosy
Oh, everybody needs some elbow...
Needs a little elbow room.

That's how it was
In the early days of the U. S.A.
The people kept coming to settle though
The east was the only place there was to go.

Why didn’t Americans need “elbow room” until the 1800’s?
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