From the eighteenth century's cobblestone streets
   With the horse and the carraiges to rest our feet
   To the train and city tram
   Came the birth of mechanical man
   And with mechanical man came the automobile
   Henry Ford's Model 'T' with an engine on wheels
   And a crazy race began, with a car for every man.
   A limousine, hot rod, Beetle and a van, or maybe just an old sedan.
  
   We're heading for a great big worldwide traffic jam
   With only red lights, green lights, yellow lights
   To be our guiding hand.
   We're heading for a great big worldwide traffic jam
   With all the hoots and the toots and the traffic brutes
   To fill our loving land.
   I wonder who's gonna win this great big race,
   Mechanical man or the natural pace?
  
   From the back seat Romeo in lover's lane
   To the family car on a highway in Spain,
   There's a car for every need,
   With the shape, the colour and speed.
   It's the twentieth century's technical toy,
   Full of buttons and dials, full of comfort and joy
   But the number's going up - I wonder where it's gonna stop
   The limousine, hot rod, Bettle and the van,
   It's gonna go way out of hand.
  
   We're heading for a great big worldwide traffic jam
   With only red lights, green lights, yellow lights
   To be our guiding hand.
   We're heading for a great big worldwide traffic jam
   With all the hoots and the toots and the traffic brutes
   To fill our loving land.
   I wonder who's gonna win this great big race,
   Mechanical man or the natural pace
   For the world's getting smaller,
   And the time's getting shorter every day...
  
   We're heading for a great big worldwide traffic jam
   We're heading for a great big worldwide traffic jam
   We're heading for a great big worldwide traffic jam