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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

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