Song Of The Moodus Cyclers

Chuck aside the sports uv old,

Marbles, tops an’ kites grown cold;

Base ball stan’s no kin’ uv show,

Tennis, croquet, all mus’ go.

All them sports we loved the mos’

Now hev given up the ghos’

Sence our Safties, trim an’ fleet,

Spin along on Moodus street.

              Chorus

O, jewhizz! how big we feel

As we straddle on a wheel;

An’ away we spin again,

Back an’ forth across the plain.

Strike a stone, – an’ Holy Moses!

Plough a furrer with our noses.

Seems as ‘o’ we would go mad

O’er this lates’ two-wheel fad.

Maidens look with env’ous eye

Es we quickly whisk them by.

“No more carriage rides,” they say,

Sence us fellers sent away

Arter Safties, by the dozen,

Father, brother, uncle, cousin.

              Chorus

O, jewhizz! don’t we feel big

On our flyin’ two-wheel gig.

Up an’ down the road we spin

With a two-foot stretch of grin

Strike a stone, – an’ Holy Moses!

Plough a furrer with our noses.

Safety, Safety, all day long,

Safety, Safety is our song.

Beats the broad or narrow gauge

Uv this steam or ‘lectric age.

Own fast hosses if you will,

But give us our Safeties still.

Lie or murder, cheat or steal,

Any way to get a wheel.

              Chorus

O, jewhizz! don’t we feel gran’

Es we tug on through the san’.

But we love our safeties yit,

An’ we’re full uv pluck an’ grit.

Tho’ our path ain’t lined with roses,

Still there’s bloom upon our noses.

Aug. 8, ‘91

Pub. in Conn.

Valley Ad.

A safety bicycle is a type of bicycle that became very popular beginning in the late 1880s as an alternative to the penny-farthing or ordinary and is now the most common type of bicycle. Early bicycles of this style were known as safety bicycles because they were noted for, and marketed as, being safer than the high wheelers they were replacing. Even though modern bicycles use a similar design, the term is rarely used today, and may be considered obsolete.

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