Show AFTER HOURS by SV J weir copy copi director lord ia thomas dont got get me wrong im just an ordinary guy im not trying to pose as an expert on the of public opinion rm im not talking big about what id do it it was my job to whip up the country on the war front im talking as an average citizen im saying not what id like to tell them but what id like to be told soon because im concerned and ive been concerned about my reaction to all leen been happening ng sure im buying bonds im paying taxes im doing w with fth less sugar but deep down inside down where it really batters natters nat something t taken place yet that iffet I 1 feel ouight to take place im all a welter of contusion confusion there it keeps me scratching my head and mopping my brow when I 1 know I 1 ought to be clenching my fists you understand its like this 1 I want to be told not to buy defense stamps or defense bonds awant I 1 want to be told to buy victory stamps or war donds bonds I 1 want to be told not about the thee construction ot of houseye in defense areas I 1 want to be tola about L the 1 construction of houses in war production areas I 1 want to be told not to remember pearl harbor I 1 want to be told to take tokyo to bomb berlin to raze rome I 1 want to be told not to do ny my r part to keep or fascism c from these shores I 1 want to be told to do my part to spread americanism ta t all shores I 1 want to be told not to help keep our world and our way of life from being lost I 1 want to be told to help build a new world and a better way ot of life I 1 want a positive program in blead of a passive one I 1 want some something thing to fight for im sick ond and tired of having only something to tight fight against im hungry tor for something to get pepped peeped u up P about im repelled from having only something to do not it been so long since the last war that I 1 f arget what happened then I 1 remember the jhb parades and the speeches and the ringing a slogans loga ns T then h e a w we e fought to make the tha world sate safe for cor democracy we bought liberty bonds we sang that the yanks were coming we set out to avenge belgium I 1 not just to remember it we made a vow that wed reach berlin or bust we toyed with plans to hang the kaiser we warned the hun to keep your head down fritzle boyl we girded ourselves for a crusade we close the doors tor for a we hated the kaiser we did t laugh at him we printed hla his loathsome physiognomy on toilet paper to make the most ignominious use ot of it we liken od his upturned k handlebars handle bars tars to the devils boras not to anything so BO harmless and pathetic as the famous Illi hirsute sute prop charlie chaplin plasters on his upper lip we saw nothing to be amused about in hi his vain and pompous as we do today in puffy strutting we pin our hopes on the defective eyesight eyesight of our enemy we planted yar war gardens we poured our money into war chests we had gas less sundays and yelled Sl ackerl at anyone who dared to venture out in his winton wanton or or stearns knight we owned churned one pound of butter into two pounds and did it with as much will as if we were turning out ammunition wo we took the offensive ave psychologically long before we took it physically arid and if we taken it psychologically wed never have hae developed tho the drive to take it physically and dont tell me we cant do the saule same now I 1 want to slug sing that today we control of our own destiny tomor yow low the destiny of the whole world vor ld I 1 want to sail against germany against italy japan it they can sail against us an and d our allies why cant we s sail a it against them i I 1 want to construct a greated america co prosperity sphere I 1 want to correct the mistakes ot tile the versailles treaty insofar as ab they allowed all this to happen I 1 want to win lebensraum tor for the democratic way of life im fed up with singing plaintive songs ai 1 I want to sing battle songs dont tell me ther therell 11 be bluebirds over the white cliffs of dover to hell with bill e birds tell me in therell ell bo be vultures res and a deathly silence over gaden im bored with keeping a stiff upper lip HP I 1 want to develop cevelo P a stiff uppercut im tired of being made mad s to feel sad I 1 want tile tha experience per peri lence ence the purging 91 marshaling driving experience of being made to feel mad fighting madl badt you get me |