"Gasoline" is a popular song written in 1913 in deference to the modern necessity for the commodity, gasoline

Gasoline

Gasoline , or petrol , is a toxic, translucent, petroleum-derived liquid that is primarily used as a fuel in internal combustion engines. It consists mostly of organic compounds obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, enhanced with a variety of additives. Some gasolines also contain...

. Lyrics were written by J. Will Callahan (1874-1946) and the music composed by Indiana musician Paul Pratt (1890-1948). The song asks a series of questions—What is it keep this world of ours a-going? What makes us happy night and day? What is the precious thing for which we're blowing each blessed dollar of our weekly pay? etc.—which it answers in the chorus:

Gasoline! Gasoline!

Ev'rywhere you go you smell it,

Ev'ry motor seems to yell it.

Gasoline! Gasoline!

That's the cry that echoes thro your dreams.

Gasoline! Gasoline!

In this land of milk and honey

Tisn't love—isn't money

Rules the world, now ain't it funny?

Gasoline! Gasoline!

Written in 2/4 time, the song is set to the tempo of Moderato marcia.

"Gasoline" is one of the songs the National Museum of American History

National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...

includes in its collection, America on the Move.