It started when they took and hitched the boiler to a wheel
And made the mechanism run along on rails of steel,
But there were lots of people who would never ride the train.
They said it was the devil's work and chanted this refrain.
I'm gonna walk on the ground like the good Lord intended,
Like he meant for me and meant for you.
I'm gonna walk on the ground like the good Lord intended,
Like the good Lord intended us to do.
It wasn't long before they figured out a way to fly
And there were airplains zooming every which way in the sky.
Folks said "If man was meant to fly, he'd have a pair of wings.
You'll never get me up in one of them confounded things".
I'm gonna ride on the train like the good Lord intended,
Like he meant for me and meant for you.
I'm gonna ride on the train like the good Lord intended,
Like the good Lord intended us to do.
But trains and planes were just a start and pretty dogged on soon
They had a rocket ship just pointing straight up at the moon.
Folks laughed and called it crazy and they hollard at the crew
"You'll never get it off the ground and even if you do"
I'm gonna fly on a plain like the good Lord intended,
Like he meant for me and meant for you.
I'm gonna fly on a plain like the good Lord intended,
Like the good Lord intended us to do.
They're gone now all those things at which the people used to scoff
And so are all the people since that cobalt bomb went off.
There's just a handful of us left to start the world anew
And we've agreed on one thing that we all are gonna do.
We're gonna walk on the ground like the good Lord intended,
Like he meant for me and meant for you.
We're gonna walk on the ground like the good Lord intended,
Like the good Lord intended us to do.