1900'S.MP3

Lyrics

intro
verse 1
McKinley's shot, Roosevelt becomes the new president, US Steel, Ford Motor, Reclamation Act, First flight, Model T, Theory of Relativity, Big Stick Diplomacy, Food Inspection Act. Elkins Act, Rose Bowl, First man at the North Pole? West Virginia Coal Mine Shaft, Treaty of Portsmouth draft, FBI, World Series, Lincoln's on the penny, Roosevelt Corollary, White House welcomes William Taft!
bridge
We didn't crack the mirror. It was always fractured since its manufacture. We didn't crack the mirror, No we didn't strike it whether you dislike it.
[verse2
Girl scouts, Titanic sunk, Standard Oil broken up, New amendments, Underwood, Clayton Antitrust. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Henry Ford, assembly, Archduke Ferdinand is shot, World War 1's begun. Virgin Islands, Jones Act, Zimmermann Telegram cracked, Armistice in Germany, Allies take the victory, Versailles Treaty, League of Nations, Spanish Flu, Great Migration, Red Scare, Alice Paul, Amendment starts the Prohibit.
bridge
We didn't crack the mirror. It was always fractured since its manufacture. We didn't crack the mirror, No we didn't strike it whether you dislike it.
verse 3
New Amendment, women vote, Warren Harding, Hollywood, Lincoln memorial, KKK revival, Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Louis Armstrong takes the stage, Emergency Quota Act, Harding dies of heart attack. Calvin Coolidge, Steamboat Willie, Dawes Plan, Great Gatsby, Bootleggers, bathroom gin, Cotton Club, Charlie Chaplin, No clear end to racism, Art Deco, Modernism, Flappers, Al Capone, actions I cannot condone! We didn't crack the mirror. It was always fractured since its manufacture. We didn't crack the mirror, No we didn't strike it whether you dislike it. Harlem Renaissance, A. Philip Randolph, Tulsa Race Massacre, Color Motion Pictures, NFL, NBC, Sacco and Vanzetti, Charles Lindberg, Jazz Singer, Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover, Black Tuesday, Easy Credit, Earhart crosses the Atlantic Wall Street Crash of '29, Great Depression on the Rise.
bridge
We didn't crack the mirror. It was always fractured since its manufacture. We didn't crack the mirror, No we didn't strike it whether you dislike it.
verse 4
Motion Picture Production Code, Sinclair Lewis, Pluto, US Anthem, John Garner, Harley-Smoot, FDR, New Deal, New amendments, Prohibition makes no sense, Dust Bowl, Huey Long, Frankenstein, Wizard of Oz, Hoover Dam, Einstein arrives, buncha acts in '35 Radio, War of the Worlds, Nylon, Hindenburg, Superman, Minimum wage, Snow White, Golden Gate, Neutrality Acts, Panay's killer, LOOK OUT POLAND, HERE COMES HITLER
outro
We didn't crack the mirror. It was always fractured since its manufacture. We didn't crack the mirror, No we didn't strike it whether you dislike it.