Ups And Downs On The Road

It’s easy to drive an automobile

     When everything goes O.K.,

When the wind is fair and the road is bare,

     And the engine is chugging away.

It’s easy to steer the ponderous thing,

     It’s easy to start and stop;

But it’s hard I say when she won’t obey,

     And the engine refuses to flop.

It’s easy to drive an automobile

     When she’s anxious to sail along;

When she thrills to feel the life in her keel,

     And is chugging her highway song.

It’s easy to fly down the boulevard

     When there’s nothing your speed to mar,

But it’s hard to bowl when a telegraph pole

     Runs carelessly into your car.

June 25, 1906

Sent N.Y. Sunday Sun,

          June 26, ‘06

                                              

                                                                                              (from 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race trials)

                ( http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/mystery_foto_friday_26_can_you_identify_this_vanderbilt_cup_race-_related_a )