Show DAMNDEST FINEST RUINS I ISun Sun sin Vanel I o Goes Goc Dun Dally Daily Over OUT Prone by his h Local H Rh I 1 The Thc spirit of or San Francisco since beginning beginning be be- ginning to recover front from the disaster of last April has found expression In Ina ina a a. poem b by Lawrence W Harris It was vas first published In the Argonaut md and mal made an m Instantaneous lilt hit Thousands Thousands ands of or copies have c been sold and the poem set to music is sun sung in nil all the music houses bouses and amid displayed In hi shop windows o It Is printed here b by permission permission per per- mission of the publisher A. A P. P Pier Pier- son bon 1539 Van un Ness nu a avenue San Pan Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco After Kipling's l On the Road Hoad to Mand Man Man- d dua til ay Post list me somewhere west vest of East street where theres there's left hut hilt dust Where the thc lads latIs are all a n. and where everything's c gone bust host Where hen the ln's that are aro stand in sort of blink an and blindly stare staret At t the damndest finest ruins ever gazed at n anywhere null Bully ruins ruins bricks bricks and wall wall through through tho the night Ive I've heard you OU call Sort of or BOrr sorry for Cor l ouch uch other cau cause you OU had to burn an and fall I From the Ferries to Van Ness youre you're a aGo Go God forsaken mess mes nut But the lie finest Inest ruins ruins more or J less le II 1 The rue strangers who come COOle and anda a n. souvenirs Iou the lie fools coors they tr try to tell us It will take tako a n million years rears Before we can get ct start started d. d so wh win dont don't we c come conic and antl live And build our homes ant and ami factories upon land Imd they've got gol to give cAt GAt to give Iv Why h on m my soul I would rather bore borc a hole halo And live right in the ashes than even move 1110 In to Oaklands Oakland's mole If IC f they'd all give me m my pick o of their s fine and slick slick I In n the damndest l finest ruins still Id I'd rather be a brick |