Gasoline (song)

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title="Gasoline"
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caption=Cover of "Gasoline", 1913.
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composer=Paul Pratt
lyricist=J. Will Callahan
published=1913
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language=English
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"Gasoline" is a popular song written in 1913 in deference to the modern necessity for the commodity, gasoline. Lyrics were written by J. Will Callahan (1874-1946) and the music composed by Indiana musician Paul Pratt (1890-1948). The song asks a series of questions—What is it keep this world of ours a-going? What makes us happy night and day? What is the precious thing for which we're blowing each blessed dollar of our weekly pay? etc.—which it answers in the chorus::"Gasoline! Gasoline!":"Ev'rywhere you go you smell it,":"Ev'ry motor seems to yell it.":"Gasoline! Gasoline!":"That's the cry that echoes thro your dreams.":"Gasoline! Gasoline!":"In this land of milk and honey":"'Tisn't love—isn't money":"Rules the world, now ain't it funny?":"Gasoline! Gasoline!" [Callahan, "Gasoline".] Written in 2/4 time, Pratt sets the tempo of "Gasoline" as "Moderato marcia".

"Gasoline" is one of the songs the National Museum of American History includes in its collection, "America on the Move". [Smithonian, "Gasoline".]

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Bibliography

*Callahan; J. Will; Pratt, Paul. "Gasoline" (sheet music). Chicago: Frank K. Root & Co. (1913)
*Smithonian Institution. [http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_1226.html "Gasoline] "America on the Move". Washington D.C.: National Museum of American History.