FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106  
107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   >>  
e against the fickle mob's changes in temperature. When you board the train of life for the city of happiness, don't let Conductor Sorrow ring the bell and drop you off at the wrong station. Check your baggage through, and don't use the sleeping-car too much. Uncle Joe and Statehood. (Note: The press dispatches indicate that Uncle Joe Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is doing all he can to defeat the Statehood bill.) If Uncle Joe'd come off the perch and let us build a state We'd resolute to beat the band and call him wise and great; We'd hand him taffy, chunk on chunk, and sling the sugar out Till that old duffer'd surely think he's what you read about: But your Uncle Joe is mighty and he has a stubborn will, And he's done malicious murder to the Statehood bill! It is true the bill is faulty; it is true if we'd our way, It would need a lot of fixing ere it saw the light of day; But we beggars are not choosers, and just any sort of state Now would set the anvils roaring when we came to celebrate; And we think he's small potatoes and quite scanty in the hill When he sets himself to knocking on the Statehood bill! If he'd just be rather friendly, we would praise him up a bit And we'd give him such a jolly that he'd lose his nerve and quit; But he carries him so haughty and he bangs his hands so loud That he scares the day-lights out us and he frightens all the crowd; And whate'er his plan or purpose, it is plain he's bound to kill That sweet child of all the statesmen that we call the Statehood bill! If he'd listen to our troubles and his haughtiness relax, Then the bill we love and cherish would escape the butcher's ax But with him across the pathway, it as plain as day appears That our hopes are only rainbows and we chase them down the years; Oh, we wish him every gladness and we never wish him ill, But we hope he'll quit his meanness to the Statehood bill! Uncle Joey! Uncle Joey! Won't you for the once be good? Won't you let us find fruition for the hopes misunderstood? If you'll only mend your manners and repenting let us in We will jolly you forever, we will pat your cheek and chin; Or we'll lay for you till doom's-day and we'll then be hoping still That the boys will overrule you and will save the Statehood bill! Small Bills. "Is the Legislature passing any big bills?" inqu
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106  
107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   >>  



Top keywords:

Statehood

 

purpose

 

passing

 
frightens
 
Legislature
 

fruition

 
manners
 

carries

 

scares

 

lights


misunderstood
 

haughty

 

forever

 

listen

 

praise

 
overrule
 

rainbows

 

hoping

 

appears

 
haughtiness

gladness

 
troubles
 

cherish

 

escape

 

pathway

 

meanness

 

repenting

 
butcher
 

statesmen

 

beggars


dispatches

 

Cannon

 

Speaker

 

Representatives

 

resolute

 

defeat

 

sleeping

 

temperature

 

fickle

 

happiness


Conductor

 

station

 

baggage

 

Sorrow

 

anvils

 

roaring

 
choosers
 

knocking

 

scanty

 

celebrate