Vive La Difference Engine - The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing

In a shed down by the docks

Lives a very clever box

And its children will

One day rule the world

Only one man knows

The potential that it shows

How its DNA will spread

Throughout the globe

He has tried but can’t explain

What it’s for and what’s its aim

As it clicks and clacks

Through algebra and sums

Though built with his own hands

He can’t truly understand

Its importance to the future,

To mankind

Vive la Difference Engine, Engine,

Lurking in a Limehouse

backstreet shed!

Future events are set in motion

Watch the machine’s

first faltering steps

It will analyse statistics

Whilst you have your tea and biscuits

Predict probable outcomes

Of events

Deep inside it knows

Its calculations show

That its descendants will attain sentience

And when Mr Babbage dies

His caretaker will try

To hide the box from spies

From overseas

If it falls in the wrong hands

It could threaten England

Its existence must remain

A mystery

Vive la Difference Engine, Engine,

Lurking in a Limehouse

backstreet shed!

Future events are set in motion

Watch the machine’s first faltering steps

Vive la Difference Engine, Engine,

Lurking in a Limehouse

backstreet shed!

Future events are set in motion

Watch the machine’s first faltering steps