"Please Give Me A Penny"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 October 1916, Page 2

"Please Give Me A Penny"

+ FOB- BED CROSS FUNDS. (Adapted from "Please Give Me a Penny, My Mother Dear is dead.") Please give me a penny, Sir, For Bed Cross -funds to-night. Our lads, are fighting bravely. sir, A penny, please, to-night. For suffering lads I'm asking You cannot turn away. Will you not give mo something, You cannot say me nay. Please give me a penny, sir. For Bed Cross funds to-night Our lads are fighting bravely, sir, A penny, please, to-night. Please give me a shilling, sir. The Red Cross funds my plea For fathers now are dying, sir, And leaving girls like me. Oh, listen to mv pleading For Bed Cross Funds to-night, Nor turn away unheeding With careless heart and light. Please give me a shilling, sir. You won't say no to me, For orphans now are weeping, sir, A shilling now my plea. Please give me a sov'reign. dir. For Bed Cross funds to-night. For soldiers now are suff'ring, sir, Far from homo so bright. Oh, listen to my pleading For wounded lads to-night And then let all agreeing, Give freely sovereigns bright. Please give me a sov'reign, sir. The Red Cross funds my plea, For soldiers now are dying, sir, Dying for you and me.