Stranded again (Ah)
Beached again (Ah)
Washed up on the shore like driftwood in Chicago
Like garbage in Chicago (Ah)
Swindled again (Ah)
Screwed again
Cheated out of two weeks' wages in Chicago
Plus car fare from Chicago
Ah, ah, ah
Stranded again
Beached again
Cheated and misused
Abandoned and abused
By a master
Disaster
In Chicago!
Saddle up the horse without delay
Ship Ahoy! We sail at break of day
Ours not to question, ours not to reason
Ours to obey
Back at the hotel, I'll keep 'em busy at the desk!
I'll sneak the bags out the back
Right!
Let down the drawbridge while you keep the motor racing
Maybe we'll have to swim the river
Working for Jaffee, though continually bracing
Also destroys the heart and liver!
What's new today?
We're gonna sneak away
Through a shower of rotten eggs
With our tails between our legs
On the Twentieth Century
The Twentieth Century
In Drawing Room "A"!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
♪
We point with the deepest pride
To the grandest ride
On the New York Central Railroad
The aristocrat of locomotive trains
New York in sixteen hours
Anything can happen in those sixteen hours
On that mighty, ride-the-night-y
Miracle of engineering brains (On the mighty miracle of brains)
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the luxury liner of locomotive trains! (Ah, luxury liner of locomotive trains)
Our heart with emotion reels
When the Prince of wheels
Starts to make its daily journey
Either Chi-N.Y
Or else N.Y. to Chi
New York in sixteen hours
Anything can happen in those sixteen hours
As in flight across the night
America the Beautiful rolls by (America the Beautiful rolls by)
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the luxury liner between N.Y. and Chi
Life and love and luck may be changed
Hope renewed and fate rearranged
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the luxury liner between N.Y. and Chi
Life and love and luck may be changed
Hope renewed and fate rearranged
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the Twentieth Century (On the Twentieth Century)
On the luxury liner between N.Y. and Chi