03x09 - Mother Necessity

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[reading]

[chorus] ♪ Mother Necessity
With her good intentions ♪

♪ Where would this country be
Without her inventions ♪

[man] ♪ 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 ♪

[chorus] ♪ Mother Necessity
Where would we be ♪

[woman] ♪ Mother Edison
Worked late each night ♪

♪ It went well until the fading light ♪

[man] ♪ 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 ♪

♪ Wow-wee what an excellent application
Of electricity" ♪

[woman] ♪ He worked hard
And pulled the switch ♪

♪ He was smart and very rich ♪

[chorus] ♪ Mother Necessity
Help us to see ♪

[man] ♪ Now, the mother of Samuel Morse ♪

♪ Always sent the lad out on a horse ♪

Whoopee! Whoope! Giddap!

[woman] ♪ Take a message to miss peavy
On the far side of the pike ♪

♪ Spread the word about the quilting bee
Next Saturday night ♪

[man] ♪ Little Samuel started thinkin'
Of a way to send a message ♪

♪ Though he'd never met a horse
He didn't like ♪

Uh!

[chorus] ♪ 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 ♪

♪ Aaa-aah-ah ♪

[chorus] ♪ Mother Necessity
Where would we be ♪

[man] ♪ 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 ♪
-[chorus] ♪ Mother Necessity ♪

♪ Orville and Wilbur
Go outside this minute ♪

♪ And there continue
With your silly playing ♪

♪ Take these plans and take those
Blueprints take the funny-lookin' 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!

[chorus] ♪ Mother Necessity
Where would we be ♪

[woman] ♪ When Robert Fulton
Made the steamboat go ♪

[man] ♪ When Marconi
Gave us wireless radio ♪

♪ When Henry Ford cranked up
His first automo ♪

♪ When Samuel Slater showed us
How the factories go ♪

[woman] ♪ When all the iron
And oil and coal ♪

♪ And steel Yankee, don't you know ♪

[all together] ♪ They made
This country really grow ♪

♪ Grow, grow, grow ♪

♪ With mother Necessity
Where would we be ♪

♪ Without the inventions of your progeny ♪