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Here we stand at the show we planned
Showing off our grand machines
We built a sea through land, world’s at our command
In Nineteen Hundred Fifteen
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This is our World’s Fair, on this virgin square
Seeing things no man’s ever seen
We can go anywhere, over sea or air
The impossible now routine

Paradise enjoyed still could be destroyed
Another earthquake is foreseen
And we can’t avoid - the spread of typhoid
Even with a quarantine
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But we’re filled with awe with news from Panama
And what scientists are calling the gene
From Darwin’s law to George Bernard Shaw
In this year Nineteen Fifteen

Now the distant coasts, they just seem so close
Telephones can call in between
Where we go by train - or even by airplane
Powered by our gasoline
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Can we do much more’ What we couldn’t before’
Things our fathers never had dreamed
What’s it all good for, when the world’s at war
In Nineteen Hundred Fifteen’

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