Blossom Dearie Mother Necessity Lyrics

Mother Necessity Lyrics

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 excellent application 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 on the far side of the pike;

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

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

Though he never met a horse he
didn'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 keep your sewing really
flowing.

In fact, we'll 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,

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