The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-03
Evening Chat

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turned out. 1t was written by George
NJ. Cohan who feels the American pulse
about as closely as the trick can be
done. Lookout Mountain" a stirring
southern ballad by Joe Goodwin and
Halsey x. Mohr, has caught on in Chi.
cago and New York. "oh! lou Won
derful Girls" by Will B. Friedlander,
Is the ordinary vaudeville success.
Mother, Dixie and You" is a new Leo
Fetst publication. written by Howard
Johnson and Joseph H. Santley, which
is catchy. Then I'll Come Back to
You" is one Of John w. Bratton's songs
which has extra choruses galore. The
first chorus goes:
When the fatherland has Boston
beans for breakfast every day,
Then I'll come back to you.
When they change Under the Linden"
and rechristen 1t Broadway,
Then I'll come back to you.
When the stars and stripes are flying
from each castle on the Rhine
And German bands are playing Yankee
Doodle in ragtime,
And the Kaiser tells his people Uncle
Sans friend Of mine
Then Ill come back to you"
If You Had All the World and Its
Gold" is the newest ballad. 1t will be
sung around here shortly and it might
be well to preserve the words:
was wishing that ! had the riches
to buy
All my dreams as l sat by the fire
What life | would live, what riches
not give?
What come could heart beside?
When my fond little mother drew close
to my side,
There are some things, my child, you
can't buy" she replied.
Mothers eyes beam on me. in their
depths can see
Light of love more precious than
gold.
Silver threads in her hair, and her
brow lined with care
Tell me she is growing old.
Then see that the teardrops are dim.
ming her eyes,
AS she smiles through her tears l can't
help realize:
CHORUS.
You can't buy the sunshine at twilight,
You can't buy the moonlight at
dawn.
You can't buy your youth when you're
growing old,
Nor your life when the heartbeat is
gone.
You can't buy your way into heaven,
Though wealth may hold power un.
told,
And when you lose your mother, you
can't buy another,
II you had all the world and its gold.
Poets are supposed to be very i'm.
practical persorages, but ofttimes they
look ahead and look deep, and see and
record truths which the practical
man" and statesman rediscover only
after the lapse Of many years and the
lessoning Of many tribulations. A few
years before the war, Wallace Irwin
wrote poem entitled: "a Few Words
from Wilhelm" ALI that mankind has
learned since about the swinishness of
Prussianisrn, all Ambassador Gerard
twisted out Of the chancellor on the
subject of peace terms, was fereshad-
owed in those comic verses. The first |
stanza and the refrain are as follows:
Man wants but leedle here below
Und wants dot leedle Dutch.
Der wishes vich wish, know
Are NIGHT so fiery mulch;
Chust Europe, Asia, Africa y
Der Western Hemisphere,
Und coaling station in Japan
Dot will be all-dis year.
Hilee, hilo, der Winds dey blow
Chust like die Wacht am Rhine.
Und vat ISIS mine belongs to me
Und vat ISIS yours iss mine!
What is mine belongs to me. and
what is yours is mine. No better state.
ment Of the Prussian, the Hohenzol.
lern, viewpoint ever was framed. The
only way to discuss peace terms with
such a government is with bayonet and
shell.
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