Transportation Lyrics - Horrible Histories

With imagination 

Inspiration 

Innovation 

And perspiration 

We revolutionised transportation 

Stephenson's the name and my steam engine's the best you will find 

(It was the Rocket, it was called the Rocket) 

It pulled a train that carried passengers and was the first of its kind 

(Caused a commotion, doing the locomotion) 

Was best by miles 

And won top prize 

At the Rainhill Trials 

The Lords said it was dangerous then saw how many tickets could sell 

(The toffs were off it, til they saw a profit) 

And so he paved the way for me I'm Isambard Kingdom Brunel 

(An engineer, and famous pioneer) 

Railways off pat 

A massive hat 

And to top that 

I was a tunnel building 

Bridge creating 

Hard grafting 

Ship crafting 

Polymath in search of a way 

To take my train through my tunnel, cross my bridge to my ship 

And sail me fastest to the USA 

My steam ship, it made the trip 

In just fourteen days 

There across the ocean was clever old me I'm quite a star 

(He's Henry Ford, yes that's what he's called) 

My assembly lines the first to make it cheap to buy a motor car 

(From Henry Ford, cars you can afford) 

I think you'll find 

Made just one kind 

But never mind 

I was the fastest rating 

Car creating 

Introducing mass producing 

Original Model T guy 

We took an engine, a bird wing 

Some bike skills, worked until we found out how machines did fly 

Not just a hop 

But non-stop 

Gonna get high, high, high! 

I'm Orville, was the brains 

The brawn, my brother Wilbur Wright 

We refined the plane and made the first sustained flight 

Our engine small 

But powerful 

Propelled to a great height! 

They were supreme 

Our mean machines 

The stuff of dreams 

We were creative, inventive 

Progress our incentive 

Always searching for a solution 

We took some steel and a wheel 

Made a plane, car and train and created a revolution 

Hard to believe what we achieved 

Looking back, we helped change tack 

Transport was duller, we added colour 

Well, as long as it's black