Mother Necessity
With her good intentions,
Where would this country be
Without her inventions?
“Mother Necessity”
Orville, Wilbur, go outside this minute,
and there continue with your silly playin'.
Take those plans and take those blueprints!
Take that funny lookin' thing
Take that wheel, take that wing!
I can't hear a thing that Mrs. Johnson's sayin'!
When Robert Fulton made the steamboat go,
When Marconi gave us wireless radio,
When Henry Ford cranked up his first automo,
When Samuel Slater showed us how the factories go,
And all the iron and oil and coal and steel and Yankee don't you know,
They made this country really grow, grow, grow, grow,
With Mother Necessity and where would we be
Without the inventions of your progeny?
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