Uncle Sam's Right Arm: A Patriotic Exercise — John Shaqi
Uncle Sam's Right Arm: A Patriotic ExercisePreston, Effa E. (Effa Estelle)
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Uncle Sam's Right Arm: A Patriotic Exercise
Preston, Effa E. (Effa Estelle)
Children's plays; Patriotic plays, American
Just gaze on us, for we’re aviators bold
We circle and turn in the air.
We loop the loop and we dive and mount and glide
And our hearts are gay and free from care.
Our eyes are bright and our nerves are firm as steel
We’re rising—we’re sinking below—
We show the world that we’re monarchs of the air
As far up above the clouds we go.
CHORUS.
Left—then right—we’re swerving—
And now we drop below
Then we rise on high, soaring thru the pathless sky
Far, far up above the clouds we shall go.
2.
My aeroplane will respond to every wish
It hums as it rises on high.
It seems to love thus to leave the world behind
Like a bird it wings across the sky
The sun by day and the twinkling stars at night
Look down in amaze and surprise
Our hearts will thrill as the wild wind whistles past
While we wing our swift way thru the skies.
CHORUS.
UNCLE SAM:
A hungry army can never fight,
So we must feed our men,
And the one who stays at home and plants
In every meadow and glen
And raises the grain to give them bread
Is patriot, brave and true
As any soldier who fights today
’Neath the red, the white, the blue.
_Enter farmers, 10 boys in overalls and straw hats, carrying hoes,
rakes, etc. They sing, air, “Vive L’Amour”._
1.
We plant and we spade and we rake and we hoe
All for the soldier boys,
We dig and we harrow, we plant and we sow,
All for our soldier boys.
CHORUS.
Sing of the farmers, the patriots true
Raising the wheat and the golden corn too.
Gladly we toil, tilling the soil,
All for our soldier boys.
2.
We’ll feed all the allies till victory is won
Won by our soldier boys,
And welcome them home when their great task is done,
Welcome our soldier boys. CHORUS.
UNCLE SAM:
With helpers such as these ’tis plain
Our victory is assured,
And not in vain the hardships
Our brave boys have endured.
We’ll make the whole wide world today
Safe for Democracy,
And the Stars and Stripes shall ever float
O’er the Land of Liberty.
_All sing, air, “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes”._
1.
All hail the banner of the free, the bonny Stripes and Stars.
Of purity the white stars speak, no stain their beauty mars.
A sign of valor you may read within its crimson bars
The blue field stands for truth and hope, illumined by Heaven’s
own stars.
2.
O’er it the light of victory shall ever brightly shine.
For freedom, justice and the right, ’twill ever be the sign.
Then may it proudly float on high, this flag of yours and mine.
And may the bonny Stripes and Stars with added lustre shine.
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