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*** HISTORY ROCK *** (1974)
Mother Necessity
Music & Lyrics: Bob Dorough
Sung by: Bob Dorough and friends
- Key to symbols within the lyrics
- Mother Necessity, with her good intentions,
- Where would this country be without her inventions?
- Oh, things were rotten in the land of cotton
- Until Whitney made the cotton gin.
- Now old times there will soon be forgotten,
- For it did the work of a hundred men.
- Mother Necessity, where would we be?
- Mother Edison worked late each night,
- It went well until the fading light.
- Little Thomas Alva Edison said "I'll grow up to be
- A great inventor and I'll make a lamp
- To help my mommy see." Wowee!
- What an excellent application of electricity.
- He worked hard and pulled a switch,
- he was smart and very rich!
- Mother Necessity, help us to see.
- Now the mother of Samuel Morse
- Always sent the lad out on a horse.
- "Take a message to Miss Peavy
- On the far side of the pike,
- Spread the word about the quilting bee
- Next Saturday night."
- Little Samuel started thinking
- Of a way to send a message,
- Though he never met a horse he didn't like.
- Mother Necessity...
- "Elias can you help me with my sewing?"
- "Mother dear, I'll fulfill your fondest wishes."
- "Elias, how?"
- "This machine I've made will keep
- Your sewing really flowing,
- In fact we'll keep the whole nation in stitches! Aaaaaa!"
- Mother Necessity, where would we be?
- %"Ring me on the% Alexander Graham Bell,
- Thank you Alexander for the phone.
- I'd never get a date, I'd never get a job,
- Unless I had a telephone."
- Mother Necessity...
- "Orville! Wilbur! Go outside this minute,
- And then continue with your silly playing!
- Take these plans, take those blueprints,
- Take that funny looking thing,
- Take that wheel, take that wing,
- I can't hear a thing that Mrs. Johnson's sayin'!
- Orville! Wilbur! Come back, boys! Orville! Wilbur!""
- Mother Necessity, where would we be?
- 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 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?
Great thanks to:
David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu (PsiCop P12+ & B5 Waiter, Fresh Air)
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