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Show LET KIM LIVE! (From The "Silent Partner") As long as the flowers their perfume give, So long I'd let the 'Kaiser live, Live and live for a million years, With nothing to drink but Belgian tears, With nothing to quench his awful thirst, But the salted brine-of a Scotchman's curse. I would let him live on a dinner each day, Served from silver o a golden tray Served with things both dainty and sweet Served with everything but things to eat. And I'd make him a bed of silken sheen With costly linens to lie between, j WTth covers of do ,vn, and fillets of lace, And downy pillow s piled in place, Yet when to its comfort he would yield, It would stink with rot of the battle-field. And blood and boaas and brains of men Should cover, him, smother him and then, His pillows should cling with the rotten clay, Clay from the grava of a soldier boy, And while God's stars their vigils keep, And while the waves the white sands sweep, He should never, never, never sleep. And through all the days, and through all the years, There should be an anthem in his ears, Kinging and singing, and never done, From the edge of light to the set of sun, Moaning and moaning and moaning wild, A ravaged French girl's bastard child. And I would build him a castle by the sea, As lovely a castle as ever could be, Then I'd show him a ship from over the sea, As fine a ship as ever could be, Laden with water cold and sweet, Laden with everything good to eat, Yet scarce does she touch the silvered sands Than a hot and He.lish molten shell, a v V Should change his Heaven into Hell, And though he'd watch on the waveswept shore, Our "Lusitania" would rise no more. In "No Man's Land" where the Iresh fell, I'd start the Kaiser a private Hell, I'd jab him, stab him, give him gas, In every wound I'd pour ground glass, I'd march him out where the brave boys died, Out past the lads they crucified. In the fearful gloom of his living tomb, There is one thing I would do before I was through, 'd make him sing in stirring manner, The wonderful words of the "Star Spangled Banner." |