| Show y LPh hp r p re RETURNING SOLDIER What a country to get back to tol Boy I could make love to its mud m d puddles not to mention its rock and rills 1 The first peep at that statue of Lib The first look at atthe atthe atthe the skyline The sky sky- skyscrapers skyscrapers skyscrapers scrapers The shops the stores the houses even the hotdog stands The first eyeful of signs a guy can read of windows windows' with American clothes in em and the names of beers cigars and people he heard of before Sure I seen em all aU before but now they're in technicolor No even a No Smoking sign in English is something ful rul The words Hamburger and Onions' Onions on a become lull full of poetry And every dame I see becomes Hedy Lamar See all them tenements out the car window Okay to me they're palaces See them bill bill- billboards billboards billboards boards tooth pastes stogies motor grease the circus and some some- somebody's somebody's somebody's body's brewery Baby to me they become the worlds world's ten thou thou- thousand thousand thousand sand greatest masterpieces of art artand artand artand and literature Steves Steve's Wayside Lunch I Ill I'll take it over the Rue de la Yeah theres there's too many guys around that still still- got double chins and deadpans Too many foul balls that dont don't pay no attention to uniforms service ribbons and deco deco- rations Too many creeps that give more attention to a loose dime In n a train aisle than to a on a amarine's amarines amarines amarine's amarines amarine's marines marine's chest Too many punks dont don't even know what your division insignia means Yeah and all that but forget em And get a load of all the faces and smiles and voices and wisecracks and things that spell America and I dont don't mean backwards All that counts is being back where the papers carry full accounts of the ball games where nobody wrecks houses except wreck house ers where you can grab any door doorknob doorknob doorknob knob without thinking it could be a booby trap Look at that taxi driver beating his jaws out in a argument with that thai laundry truck driver Boy its it's like long forgotten sweet music See that old number in baggy slacks setting out lettuce and tomato plants in that two-by-four two backyard Kid to me its it's the Queen of Sheba in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon America Of thee I sing arid and every rattle flivver horn and every yell yeU of Sock it out kid makes swell accompaniment Thy woods and hills even al all fouled up with beaneries tourist camps and liver pill signs they make the best scenery on earth The town home-town garbage truck seems like Cinderella's coach and four The The cry One up with mustard mus mustard tard gives me a greater thrill than Lafayette we are here The white picket fence around my house is a greater sight than all the shrubs and statues tu around the gardens ms oi of Versailles And Ill I'll swap the Rhine the Po and the Thames for forthe forthe forthe the water running off my roof after a June rain You can have the Atlantic the Pacific the Mediterranean and the English channel for the brook that runs through Mulligan's Grove Ill I'll trade all the words of Churchill Roosevelt Truman n Stalin Stal ri and Tony Eden and all the music of London and Paris for the sound of a certain party's voice You take the Four Freedoms Ill I'll take her one smile There aint as much mennon In hi the text of the Charters of Quebec Bretton Brett n Woods Yalta Cairo and San Francisco as there th is in seven little words from my mom Ive got a homemade pie for you Well the train is puffin in now Home again Pardon me if I hug huga a couple of trees and kiss a few buildings Gangway Hey mom Hey pop Hey honey We expect to visit the place any day now and be introduced to a Vice in Charge of Fancier Cocktail Glasses and a Chairlady of the Committee to Tie Ribbons on Moorings Skipper an old fashioned cuspidor if you please The Japs now threaten to launch hunch an out all-out stratosphere balloon at at- attack attack tack on the United States Person Person- Personally Personally Personally ally we think it is a lot of ba looney What No Roller Skates LIVING room bedroom baby and furniture Thermos lunch set power mower 4 cyl 16 hp out out- outboard outboard outboard board with 16 ft boat Selmer saxo saxo- saxophone sa saxophone o- o phone and clarinet and base accordion Sunset avenue Englewood Bergen Bergen Record Getting Really High A proposal to operate bars in air air- airliners airliners liners is disturbing legislators as aswell aswell aswell well it may We wince at the invitation invitation invitation tation See what the boys in 10 the hack draft will h havA v l I |
