Land of invention and home of "Can Do,"

Birthplace of mighty machinery are you!

Builder of bridges and trains and skyscrapers,

Molder of steel into mammoth Earth shapers!

Dams taming some of your mightiest streams

Generate power beyond Newton’s dreams!

Yet do your scientists broaden the quest,

Coaxing more power from the nuclear breast!

Bold, your explorers have ventured to go

Deep in the sea and to poles decked in snow.

Now, having traveled to each earthly place,

They turn their gaze to the vastness of space!

It seems there’s no problem that science can’t solve,

Backed by the true grit of Yankee resolve!

No place too distant, no job too tough

For men and women who have the right stuff!

What's in the future? No mortal can say.

But it seems certain that you’ll lead the way,

Ever inventive, ‘though hated by some,

Leaving Earth better for those yet to come!