The 20th Century

Lyrics

[Verse 1] The 20th Century was a train Sleek and fast and so streamlined And steel and diesel power unchained Cigars and oysters and black shoes shined And the twentieth century is already gone Come to think of it, the millennium is too And all those years and the buck stops here Except I fear it's not worth as much this year [Verse 2] Thomas Jefferson was a man Didn't have to grow up to be President For no woman had to vote Nor any man of African descent And two thousand years of the golden rule And we still keep illegal aliens out of school And someone's gotta wash dishes and clean toilets too And someone's gotta play football and someone's gotta sing the blues [Verse 3] This little experiment of ours Pretty damn new and shaky so far We have the freedom to hang out in bars To buy shiny new guns or shiny new cars And there's no trains left to make run on time But that's not gonna keep them from tryin' And how we gonna keep 'em down on Broadway? Let's try religion, sports and a lottery a day [Verse 4] This car screaming down the road A rebel flag and talk show overload Passes a school bus on the right Racing that train to a wreck tonight And two thousand and one candles to blow And twenty centuries down and one to grow Except for ten days taken away by Pope Gregory I lost ten days in college, they didn't name a calendar after me And this is the America Columbus discovered And yeah, the Vikings could have discovered this one too And the Indians fought the Braves in the World Series And let's get serious and open another brew [Outro] The 20th Century was a train