ENGINEers

Not long ago they looked down on us
As men who toiled with tools and nuts,
We sawed through wood and hammered out ore,
We were 'penters and 'smiths till they wanted more !

In reply the machines started to come
And they needed men to run the beasts,
Under tin roofs they called us in -
We started working with the milling machine !

Over time the machines got bigger and better,
Gears and levers had become our tools -
No matter what rolled out on the belt
The world outside always needed more !

In time the engine took its place,
And they found us a name at last -
Since then "ENGINEers" we have been,
Chugging the new world onwards !

The new world needed machines to build,
Engines to travel...machines to unravel,
We built machines for a better world......
We built machines that threatened us all !

Today with machines we've bonded so deep
That without them life seems empty and steep,
Our work is getting machines to "engineer" -
So ENGINES are today's real ENGINEers !