Poems (Barbara White)/Our Boys and Girls
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Our Boys and Girls
Theme—Mr. Payne's lecture in high school at the Graduation Exercisee on Dec. 6th.
The other night I went to hear a lecturer
In one of our big high schools,
And no doubt some in the aundience
Thought that man was a fool;
He went on to show how the want of education
Also of trained workmen
Was the cause of the present high prices
In our country at the present time.
In one of our big high schools,
And no doubt some in the aundience
Thought that man was a fool;
He went on to show how the want of education
Also of trained workmen
Was the cause of the present high prices
In our country at the present time.
It's been the constant stream of imigration
From all other foreign shores,
Of men who have served from five to seven years
To learn a trade and sometimes more,
And since this war began
We don't have the men you see,
So it's up to us to train our own
As they in the lands across the sea.
From all other foreign shores,
Of men who have served from five to seven years
To learn a trade and sometimes more,
And since this war began
We don't have the men you see,
So it's up to us to train our own
As they in the lands across the sea.
We have got to train our boys and girls
And give each one a trade,
Just the same as they do on the old foreign shores
And their fortunes then are made,
No on other countries we wont then depend
For the men with the skill and brain,
If we train our own we will have them here
And be sure that they will fit in.
And give each one a trade,
Just the same as they do on the old foreign shores
And their fortunes then are made,
No on other countries we wont then depend
For the men with the skill and brain,
If we train our own we will have them here
And be sure that they will fit in.