WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO BE ME?

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 273, 18 March 1918, Page 12

WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO BE ME?

(By J. George Frederick.)

I belong to the Loyal Legion, And I wouldn’t drop out for gold! I go to the finest meetings 1 hat anyone ever could hold! I learn so many fine lessons, I don’t know how it can be That all of you don’t become members, —• Now wouldn't you like to be me? I’ve signed a pledge not to drink whisky, Nor to smoke, nor to chew, nor to swear; And I’m ever so glad that 1 did it, And have my nice badge to wear; For 1 feel like a man, now. who’s stronger I'han any bad habit can be. i feel like jumping and shouting— Now wouldn’t you like 1 to be me? I study about alcohol’s workings On the body, the soul, and the mind; And, I tell you, if you’d know what l know, No chains ’round about you could wind! Then I study of drink and the nation, And many great truths I can see. When I’m oRW I want to make laws right,— Now’ wouldn’t you like’ to be me? And then I have fun by the bushel — Much more than the boys on the street ; We have rally cries, marches, conventions, And open a whole lot to oat. W e learn to roc ; tc\ and debate, and make speeches. And we sing and make music with glee, I always wish Legion came oft’ner, — Now wouldn’t you like to be me? 1 belong to the Loval Legion, \nd I wouldn't drop out for gold! 1 go to the* finest meetings T hat anyone c v«*r could hold! I learn so many fine lessons, I don’t sec* how it can be That all of vou don’t become members, — Now wouldn’t vou like to he me?