Inventor of the steamboat + heroin addiction. This is from the WP archives, but few people heard these recordings, so we're sharing them now.

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Even if you take a detour from life, that little steamboat just keeps chugging along. "Progress, don't like it. Progress, don't want it."

Is the bottom dropping out
of your steamboat south?
Well, Robert Fulton and all his crew
had a lot of work to do
so they sent a load of needles
to your house.
And they made...

Progress, don't like it.
Progress, don't want it.
Progress, I see it caught you, too.

Dragged those blocks
from place to place.
Been floating in the Nile of late.
Well, Robert Fulton and all his crew
set out to see
what they could prove.
But they built a pyramid
that came unglued.
And they made...

Progress, etc.

And it's
1, 2, all of you
3, 4, best ignore
5, 6, my nervous tics
7, 8, when I get straight.
When I get straight.