Allan Sherman - Automation lyrics

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AUTOMATION<br />

(Alan Sherman)<br />

It was automation, I know<br />

That was what was making the factory go<br />

It was IBM<br />

It was Univac<br />

It was all those gears going<br />

Clickity clack, dear<br />

I thought automation was keen<br />

Till you were replaced by a ten-ton machine<br />

It was a computer that tore us apart, dear<br />

Automation broke my heart.<br />

There's an RCA 5-0-3<br />

Standing next to me, dear, where you used to be<br />

Doesn't have your smile<br />

Doesn't have your shape,<br />

Just a bunch of punch cards and light bulbs and tape, dear<br />

You're a girl who's soft, warm and sweet<br />

But you're only human and that's obsolete<br />

Though I'm very fond of that new 5-0-3, dear Automation's not for<br />

Me.<br />

It was automation, I'm told That s why I got fired and I'm out in<br />

The cold How could I have known When the 5-0-3<br />

Started in to blink it was winking at me, dear<br />

I thought it was just some mishap<br />

When it sidled over and sat on my lap<br />

But when it said "l love you " and gave me a hug, dear<br />

That's when I pulled out. . . it's plug.<br />

Copyright 1963 Curtain Call Productions<br />

Tune: Fascination<br />

@computer @parody<br />

Filename[ AUTOMTN<br />

RG<br />

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