Vive La Difference Engine

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