Philosophy Of The Common
People
ENTERPRISE
Way back in eighteen-sixty-some when the wild, wild west was newly won
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads set out to achieve
What no one in their right mind would ever likely begin to believe
To span the American continent with the great iron tracks of industry
And spread the gospel of capitalism from American sea to once shining sea
The great task was done through government immense at very great expense
And it should have sent up an early flag or two about our governmental sense
The Central under Sacramento skies of blue and the Union’s Missouri River crew
Planned to meet somewhere in the middle, but as governments are want to do
With all manner of corporation persuasion that every licentious tongue could speak
Greedy congressional pockets were filled from Omaha to Mount Whitney’s peak
All lobby bribes were pacified, swallowing up every political tribe’s manure
And where the two ends would finally meet, no one seemed to know quite exactly
for sure
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