A scene from “Mother Necessity”

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?