Misc Cartoons – Schoolhouse Rock - Mother Necessity (Guitar)

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Mother Necessity

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With her good intentions,

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Where would this country be

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Without her inventions?

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Oh, things were rotten in the land of cotton

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Until Whitney made the cotton gin.

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Now old times there will soon be forgotten

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For it did the work of a hundred men.

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Mother Necessity, where would we be?

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Mother Edison worked late each night.

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It went well until the fading light.

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Little Thomas Alva Edison said, "I'll grow up to be

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A great inventor and I'll make a lamp to help my mommy see,

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Wowee! What an excellent application of electricity!"

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He worked hard and pulled the switch.

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He was smart and very rich.

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Mother Necessity, help us to see.

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Now, the mother of Samuel Morse

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Always sent the lad out on a horse.

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"Take a message to Ms. Peavy on the far side of the pike;

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Spread the word about the quilting bee next Saturday night!"

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Little Samuel started thinking of a way to send a message,

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Though he never met a horse he didn't like. Uh!

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Mother Necessity!

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Elias, can you help me with my sewing?

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Mother dear, I'll fulfill your fondest wishes.

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Elias, how?

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This machine I've made will keep your sewing really flowing.

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In fact, we'll keep the whole nation in stitches. Ah!

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Mother Necessity, where would we be?

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Ring me on the Alexander Graham Bell.

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Thank you Alexander for the phone.

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I'd never get a date, I'd never get a job

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Unless I had a telephone.

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Mother Necessity!

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"Orville, Wilbur, go outside this minute,

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And there continue with your silly playing!

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Take these plans and take those blueprints.

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Take that funny looking thing,

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Take that wheel, take that wing,

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I can't hear a thing that Mrs. Johnson's saying.

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Orville! Wilbur! Come back, boys! Orville! Wilbur!"

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Mother Necessity, where would we be?

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When Robert Fulton made the steamboat go,

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When Marconi gave us wireless radio,

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When Henry Ford cranked up his first automo,

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When Samuel Slater showed us how factories go,

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And all the iron and oil and coal and steel and Yankee don't you know,

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They made this country really grow, grow, grow, grow,

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With Mother Necessity and where would we be

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Without the inventions of your progeny?