Automation Lyrics - Sherman Allan

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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