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For Glory and National Defense
USS Salt Lake City CA25 Memorabilia Sunday Supplement of the "Saltshaker" No Date found |
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We've learned to eat beans, rice and cabbage, And forgotten about things like cows. We've cautiously dated our fresh eggs As older than Darwin allows. We've put away thoughts of home-cooking As dreams of a very past tense While we breakfast on prunes and stale crackers For Glory - And National Defense We've forgotten now what our home's like, And the fact that we once drove a car. We still recall where our wives live But we wish that they knew where we are. We remember still seeing our children, But they have forgotten since They think we are pictures that sit on a shelf For Glory - and National Defense. We've forgotten the days when a dollar Might buy us a movie and dinner Instead of procuring a sandwich The size of the dollar, but thinner We remember the grocer and milkman And the buzzard who reaps in the rents We remember them for the prices they raised For Glory - and National Defense. We've forgotten the resting on Sunday, The pleasure of sleeping all night We've forgotten the looks of our families But we still remember the plight Of the 40 hour men we're defending, (Those strike-for-overtime gents) We think about them in our 18 a day For Glory - and National Defense Author Not Named |
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