Show THE GENTLE FILIPINO Ive chased tho wild Apacho through his Gorlforttikon land Ivo tracked t the daring horsethief where his footprints marked the sand Ivo summered with tho robbers down at Coney by I I ho ECO But the penllo Filipino say he beats them all for me lie boats thorn all for me son the whole Immortal lot In his slushy mushy country where tho ilimatc good and hot Ive tracked tile rod nml yellow and Ive t rackedtin wild and tame But tho gonilo Filipinos Is high low Jack and game With his timid llttlo manner and his sweet and loving smile And his eiay way Of swearing that ho loves you nil tho Bwearns with a white flag on his shanty hanging out to catch your eve And his llttlo rifle ready to plunk you by and by For to plunk you by and by boy to shoot you in tho back = bact And to skip away swiftly a a sprinter down the trink To come round when they plant you Just to drop a little tear For the dear gentle Filipino la a tenderhearted Ho8 as playful as a kitten andhla pas time is a rule a Itlen In to shoot the llasoflruco man as a sort of April fool isa And If hl can tlnd It tree top and get up there with hiM gun And pick off tho Inds thats wounded then i lu knnvB han having fun lie knows ihn8 having fun boys I a grand rod time nil round V ni J They look so iukward tumbling from tho strnUlicra to the wound i I was such fun to jjhoot them and kill thorn wliero they t lay ltl For thr gentle Filipino loves his sweet and childish play i Jv I But I know that hcHan angel pure and white UM oionn foam Causo 1 road it In tho papers that they send to mo from pnp And I know I am IL butcher cause tho clse pamphlet HaM I am But I think Ill keep aflghtlng Just the sonic for Undo Sam Just the name for Uncle Sam boys and Just bear this In mind And that the watch dogs better than the cur Unit sneaks behind Ana Ill try to bear up somehow under thin my murderous taint Fr the gentle Filipino Is a damned queer kind of saint < Robert < S MclSlwcc Sergeant Forty 8iv Milh Infantry U S A in tho Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |