Lyrics - Mother Necessity by Various Artists

Lyrics &
Music by:
Bob
Dorough
Performed by:
Bob
Dorough,
Blossom
Dearie,
Essra
Mohawk, and
Jack
Sheldon
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 excellentapplication of electricity!"
He worked hard and pulled the 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
Ms.
Peavy onthe far side of the pike;
Spread the word about the quiltingbee next
Saturday night!"
Little
Samuel started thinking of away to send a message,
Though he'd never met a horse hedidn't like.
Uh!
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 keepyour sewing really flowing.
In fact, we'
II keep the whole nation in stitches.
Ah!
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 there continue with your silly playing!
Take these plans and take those blueprints.
Take that funny looking thing,
Take that wheel, take that wing,
I can't hear a thing that
Mrs.
Johnson's saying.
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 ushow the factories go,
And all the iron and oil and coal andsteel and
Yankee don'tyou know,
They made this country really grow,grow, grow, grow,
With
Mother
Necessity and wherewould we be
Without the inventions of yourprogeny?

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