Lyrics - On The Twentieth Century by Coleman Cy

Music by
Cy
Coleman
Lyrics by
Betty
Comden and
Adolph
Green
From the 1978 musical "
On
The
Twentieth
Century"
Transcribed by
Randy
Goldberg,
NYMC '97
Saddle up the horse without delay
Ship ahoy, we sail at break of day
Ours not to question
Ours not to reason
Ours to obey!
Let down the drawbridge
While you keep the motor racing
Maybe we'll have to swim the river
Working for
Jaffee, though continually crazy,
Also destroys the heart and liver
What's new today
We're gonna sneak away
To a shower of rotten eggs
With our tails between our legs
On the
Twentieth
Century, the
Twentieth
Century
In
Drawing
Room
A!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
We point with the deepest pride
To the grandest ride
On the
New
York
Central
Railroad
The aristocrat of locomotive trains
New
York in sixteen hours
Anything can happen in those sixteen hours
On that mighty ride
That mighty miracle of engineering trains
Ride that mighty miracle of engineering trains
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the luxury liner of locomotive trains
On the luxury liner of locomotive trains
Our hearts will be motion reels
When this prince of wheels
Starts to make its daily journey
Either
Chi-
N.
Y.
Or else
N.
Y. to
Chi
New
York in sixteen hours
Anything can happen in those sixteen hours
As the flight all across the night
America the beautiful was high
America the beautiful was high
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the luxury liner between
N.
Y. and
Chi
Life and love and luck
May be changed
Hope renewed (renewed)
And fate rearranged
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the luxury liner between
N.
Y. and
Chi
Life and love and luck
May be changed
Hope renewed
And fate rearranged
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the
Twentieth
Century
On the luxury liner between
N.
Y. and
Chi

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