The 20th Century

歌詞

The twentieth century was a train Sleek and fast and so streamlined Steel and diesel power unchained Cigars and oysters and black shoes shined The twentieth century is already gone Come to think of it the millennium is too All those years and the buck stops here Except I fear it's not worth as much this year 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 Two thousand years of the golden rule We still keep illegal aliens out of school Someone's gotta wash dishes and clean toilets too Someone's gotta play football and someone's gotta sing the blues This little experiment of ours Is 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 There's no trains left to make run on time But that's not gonna keep them from trying How we gonna keep 'em down on Broadway Let's try religion, sports and a lottery a day This car screaming down the road Rebel flag and talk show overload Passes a school bus on the right Racing that train to a wreck tonight 2001 candles to blow 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 Yeah the Vikings could have discovered this one too The Indians fought the Braves in the World Series Let's get serious and open another brew