Show I II I BETWEEN YOU AND ME I 1 BY fly SIR HARRY LAUDER It was a hard thing for me mo to get I I used used to thinking o 0 a the great distance of or trav travel 1 in America Tn In Britain the longest trip one wad nd be like to make wad wadi i bo be fra fri London tae tite or the other way around Its It's harder than one wha done it can realize tae tao travel an angio gio shows a day for any length o 0 tim Um If it was staying always tt week or mair in one city it would be better nut lOut in America for the first time I had to combine lon long travelling wi wl con con- slant Folks come In frao frae long distances to a toon loon when a sho show they want to see is booked to o appear and its it's necessary that there should be a a. matinee as well as a I performance perform whenever its it's at a possible S Ive aye ae taken it as a 0 great groat compliment compliment compliment ment and as the finest thing I could think I about bo my work that Its It's t true men fl like the Western e Ow cowboys s and d dt like the theS soldiers for whom I sang sang- sae much when when- S i was in France o o nil all i. i the be e armies who maist like lite to henr hear mo me sing Ive I've never much wi wl me mc Ma Maybe be its it's because 1 Im I'm m singing when I sing for tor them for the sheer jO Joy of doing it and not for siller shier Ive I've had strange accompaniments for form formy m my roy mair than once Oct West Vest this coyote coote has played an obligate for me mci in France Ive I've had the 0 o over my head and the booming booming- of or the big guns like the l lOwest west notes of ot some some great organ I can always sing ye Itch keh any accompaniments frae frac plana piano or band bead Dead and theres there's one song 6 0 mine I always s 's sing alone Its It's The Ye We Wee Wee- Hoose the Heather And every time I appear I 1 think theres there's some someone one asks for that SCOTS SCOTS AND AND TOOl TOO J Gies the wee hoose hoase Harry they'll roar And The wee hoose mang the heather Harry Ill I'll hear frae another part o o 0 the hoose Its It's ls l's many years since Ive I've no had to sing that song at every I performance Sometimes Ive I've been surprised a at t the way my audiences ha received me inc Theres There's in America where maist o 0 the the- folk will be bo foreigners places where great lots hots of people from the old countries toun- toun coun oun- tries ha settled doon and kept their am aln language land and their am ain customs In Minnesota and Wisconsin therell there'll be whole colonies of for example Ill I'll be sure whiles Im I'm singing that they canna understand The English they manage but when I talk a wee bit 0 o Scots talk tall its it's them altogether But they'll laugh laugh laugh at the way I 1 talk talk I suppose and at the waggle 0 o ma kilts And they'll applaud and ask for mair I think theres there's a leaven 0 o Scots in sie a audience Just Scots enough so ha Ill a friend or I before I start And after that as a's wee wed weel Its It's a great to see the crowds crowels gather in a wee vee place that's happened to be chosen for a performance or because theres there's nae a theatre or hall ha that's big enough They'll come in their motor x r cars a ay and theres there's some wull wu I wAd And v its it's t a A sob sobering r g thing ta think they're a those gude folk foUt tae hear me sing You canna do ought but I tak yourself seriously when they that work sea hard to earn it their siller sHier to hear bear you It was In America I first came sea close dose to an un audience as to hae it up on the stage wi me When o 0 hoose is sair crowded there they'll put jut chair upon the stage stage male maie sae sac as not to disappoint disappoint disappoint dis dis- dis- dis appoint them as may ha made a lang Journey tae get in than for the siller oilier that wad be lost were they turned awa And its it's a rare thing for an artist tobe to tobe tobe be able tae see sae sac close the impression that hes he's making Ill I'll pick some fel old low sometimes that looks as If nothing could mak mal him laugh And Ill I'll make him the test If I canna make malte him crack a a. smile before Im I'm done my heart will be heavy leavy within me and Ill I'll think the performance performance performance per per- has been a failure But lOut its it's seldom indeed that I fail fall A WORD OF ADVICE Wed eel Im I'm near the end o 0 my tether I Its Its It's been grand tae tac sit doon and talk things wi you Were We're a friends together are wa no Whiles le I Ill I'll ha said things wi which y you'll no o agree whiles perhaps weve we've been o 0 the same way o 0 thinking And what Im I'm surest of is that theres there's no a question in in this world which reasonable men canno agree We maun get together We maun talk tall things over Here and noo for example theres there's ane great trouble us is The man who works isna Nor Ol is the man who pays pas him Ill I'll no speak peak of malster maister and man roan for the day when that was true of or employer er and workman has gone for a aye e They're partners partners part part- ners nets the noo Then maun work together pr produce cuce together for fOI the common guld guild We Yee weve ve seen strikes on a a sides and aria in ini ina I i a J. J lands In Britain and in America Ive I've seen een them I deplore a strike And that's because a strike is like a war and theres there's theresI I no need for fOI either One side can forca forc fore 1 I a a. war war war-as as the Hun did But if the Hun J had been a reasonable decent body bodY and and andi Ilm i Im I'm praying weve we've taught him all ll we allies that we maun become such if hes he's tao tan be allowed tao tae to go on loving In the world at all he all he could ha found the rest o 0 the world ready to talk over things wi him And Andl i when it comes tae tao a strike need one side or the tile other act like the Hun Is it no rio alwa always s 's sae that i the end the wi both sides giving in I something to tho other How flow often maun maunone maunone maunone one or the other be beaten flat and crushed Seldom indeed Then why canna we ge together I l' the beginning and avoid the bitterness and the cost of the struggle S The thing weve we've a. a a seen maist often in the war was the fineness o 0 humanity Men who seemed to be 0 o much account proved themselves true i the great test It turned oot when the strain was put upon them that maist men were fine tine and brave and full of the spirit of or self Mean learned that i ithe Ithe the trenches Women proved It at home It was one for a and a for one I Shall we drop a that noo that peace has come again Shall we gie gle Up a we weha weha weha ha learned of how men of different minds can pull together for a common end I I Im I'm thinking well we'll be no such fools We VI had to pull together i the war to keep I frae frao being destroyed But lOut noo weve we've a 3 chance to get something positive positive to lo milk mak something I profitable and worthwhile worth worthwhile worthwhile while oot of oC pulling together MUST NOT GO BACK DACK Before it l was las as as Just a negative thing that made mado us do it It was fear in a way It was the threat ho he Hun made against all we held most dear and sacred Noo Nooit's its it's sac SOle different We Ve c worked miracles miracles' miracles miracles' mir mir- acles' acles the war We Vo did things the world had thought Impossible They're aye said aid that it was necessity that was the of invention and the war var helped again ae ac prove hoo rue a saying that was Wed Weel canna canton we vo make he necessity for fora a b better tt world th the mother e eo o of n new and tr rl th r n than any y w ha yet v w iv no ma accomplish miracles still een cen though the desperate need for them has passed passed- That's the thing I think of maist these days days that that it would be n l sair thing and anda a tragic thing I If he lie spirit that filled tho the world during the war should falter iPe noo Weve We've suffered sae sac much much ec weve we've given sac sae nuch pf our best We VI maun gain a that we can in return And the way way way-lias 1 been pointed tae tac us It is but for VB Us to follow it If Things have ay ayd been aye been done in certain wa ways s Wed Weel the they seemed ways gude enow But when the war camo came we found the they were no gude enow for all aU Wd I t. t And n because s it W was a case as of must W wo we changed h them h Theres There's e e may I would gae gac back They say that that wl wi the end o 0 the war there maun be an end o all the changes that it brought brought- But we could do more we could accomplish more mere through those changes I say It would be foolish thing and a a. wicked thing to go bach bacic It was each man for himself before the war It be sae sac when the bad times Umes came upon us We had ot draw to toI to- to gether Had we no done so we should I ha perished Men drew together in each I country nations approached one another i 1 1 I I W. W resistless force toward a better life for fora fora fora I a mankind I pull U Liken together eti well what Ive I've seen it e eer means er them for doing men s sae to I Iwi wl wi the shadow of death I l' the morn upon their faces Ive I've sung Bung do you 01 mind at for men who were to dee lee the next day and knew it And they were glad for they knew that they were to dee sae that the world have a better fuller fuller ful ful- ful- ful ler life Id I'd think I r was cheating men who could no longer help themselves or defend themselves against my cheating were I to gie up the task undone that they ha left tae tal me and tae the rest of us Aye its it's a bonny world they've theve saved for us But its it's no sae sac bonny yet as it itI J maun be and be-and and as God helping us well we'll mak mak- makIt It i |