AUTOMATION
(Alan Sherman)
It was automation, I know
That was what was making the factory go
It was IBM
It was Univac
It was all those gears going
Clickity clack, dear
I thought automation was keen
Till you were replaced by a ten-ton machine
It was a computer that tore us apart, dear
Automation broke my heart.
There 's an RCA 5-0-3
Standing next to me, dear, where you used to be
Doesn 't have your smile
Doesn 't have your shape,
Just a bunch of punch cards and light bulbs and tape, dear
You 're a girl who 's soft, warm and sweet
But you 're only human and that 's obsolete
Though I 'm very fond of that new 5-0-3, dear Automation 's not for
me.
It was automation, I 'm told That s why I got fired and I 'm out in
the cold How could I have known When the 5-0-3
Started in to blink it was winking at me, dear
I thought it was just some mishap
When it sidled over and sat on my lap
But when it said "l love you " and gave me a hug, dear
That 's when I pulled out. . . its plug.
Copyright 1963 Curtain Call Productions
tune: Fascination
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