Please see pp. xxiii and xxiv

https://escholarship.org/content/qt8r82f9kk/qt8r82f9kk.pdf

https://escholarship.org/content/qt8r82f9kk/qt8r82f9kk.pdf

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“A Hundred Years from Now”
Written by E. Spencer and R[ansom]. H. Randall
Sharps and Flats, For Singing Schools and Conventions
(Chicago: Ransom H. Randall, c1899: 16-17)

1. I’d like to see this earth again, A hundred years from now,
And walk and talk with living men; A hundred years from now,
I’d like to see how farming’s done, How business is, and how it’s run,
How votes are cast and office won, A hundred years from now.

2. Of course there’ll be no wood to burn, A hundred years from now,
There’ll be some tricks in trade to learn, A hundred years from now;
There’ll be big towns and steeples high, And buildings that will scrape the sky,
And stores where all the world could buy, A hundred years from now.


3. There’ll be machines to shuck the corn, A hundred years from now,
Machines to nurse the babe that’s born, A hundred years from now;
Machines that fly and walk by day, Machines that work, machines that play,
Perhaps machines to preach and pray, A hundred years from now.

Chorus:
A hundred years from now, A hundred years from now,
A hundred years . . . , A hundred years, . . .
A hundred years from now, A hundred years from now.

A modern rendition, with music different from that in the original, is found in Songs from the Tall Grass, by Randy Hale (Pasadena, CA: Halesong Records, 1998) who rediscovered the song in “a small archive in Wellington, Kansas”.