it started when they hitched the boiler to a wheel and made the mechanism run along on rails of steel but there were lots of people who would never ride the train they said it was the devil s work and chanted this refrain i m gonna walk on the ground like the good lord intended like he meant for me and you i m gonna walk on the ground like the good lord intended like the good lord intended us to do it wasn t long before they figured out a way to fly and there were airplanes zooming every which way in the sky folks said if man was meant to fly he d have a pair of wings you ll never get me up in one of them confounded things i m gonna ride on a train like the good lord intended like he meant for me and meant for you i m gonna ride on a train like the good lord intended like the good lord intended us to do but trains and planes were just a start and pretty doggone soon they had a rocket ship just pointing straight up at the moon folks laughed and called it crazy and they hollered at the crew you ll never get it off the ground and even if you do i m gonna fly on a plane like the good lord intended like he meant for me and meant for you i m gonna ride on a train like the good lord intended like the good lord intended us to do they re gone now all those things at which the people used to scoff and so are all the people since that cobalt bomb went off there s just a handful of us left to start the world anew and we re agreed on one thing that we all are gonna do we re gonna walk on the ground like the good lord intended like he meant for me and meant for you i m gonna ride on a train like the good lord intended like the good lord intended us to do