Amos Green’s Ambition

“I don’t expect no furrin’ trip,

     No furrin’ sights to see;

I don’t expect no airship rides,”

     Said Amos Green to me.”

But there’s one thing I’d like to see,

     One place I’d like to go

Afore I die, an’ that is to

     A movin’ picture show.

I’ve hurd about the Great White Way,

     The milky way as well;

An’ that big Paris boulevard

     That is so mighty swell,

An’ all them p’ints uv interest,

     That tourist people know;

But I’d be satisfied to see

     A movin’ picture show.

I don’t know zackly what they be,

     But must be great I know,

‘Cuz fellers who’ve ben off to town

     Hev of’en told me so.

I’ve got to where I don’t expect

     To see the world, I know,

But I would like to see just once

     A movin’ picture show.

March 11, 1910