Not Like That
They didn’t even have railroads
back in the year eighteen hundred,
not every man would get to vote,
only those with property did!
And some of those folks did own slaves,
wasn’t that a great disgrace?
They couldn’t even keep Indians
from raiding all over the place!
They had no motors or factories,
and still wore tri-corner hats,
thank God in nineteen hundred
we no longer live like that!
…
Those souls back in nineteen hundred
were just so backwards, don’t you know?
They wouldn’t let a woman work,
or even have her say and vote!
And all those prejudicial laws…
they did not even understand
that skin plays no real part in
the making of a good man.
They did not have cars to drive,
that era just sounds like crap,
thank God now in two thousand
we no longer put up with that!
…
Those people back in two thousand
sure acted like a bunch of loons,
not the least because they killed
their unborn babies in the womb!
And what was with their thinking
that all cultures were just the same
even after mad Islamists
crashed into their buildings with planes?
And thinking that government could
give a person what they lacked?
Thank God in twenty-one hundred
we’ve grown beyond all that...
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