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Show JUST A VOLUNTEER "Why didn't I wait to be drafted, And be led to the train by a band ; Or put in a claim for exemption, Oh why did I hold up iuy hand .' Why didn't I wait for the banquet, Why didn't I wait to be cheered ? For the drafted men get all the credit, While I merely volunteered. And nobody gave me a banquet, Nobody said a kind word, I The puff of the engine, the grind of the wheels Was all the good-bye that I heard, Then off to the training camp hustled,' To be trained for the next half a year, And in the shuffle forgotten I was only a volunteer. I And perhaps some day in the future, When my little boy sits on my knee, And asks what I did in the great war, And his little eyes look up at me I will have to look back into those eyes Th at to me so trustingly peer And tell him that I wasn't drafted, I was only a volunteer. A Volunteer. |