I read this as a teenager in a Sci-Fi compilation without paying much attention to the author, so I forgot where I read it or who wrote it or where I could find it again. But I composed and tape-recorded a melody to the lyrics which still hums in my head :

  While you ride
  While you glide
  We are watching down inside
  that your roadways go rolling along. ...

I think the original was supposed to be to the music from "The Caissons Go Rolling Along".