Be On Time

If you’ve got a job to do

     Be on time;

If you want to see it through,

     Be on time.

If you want to do it right,

Please your boss’s appetite –

Feel contented comes the night;

     Be on time.

If you owe a little bill

     Be on time;

If you want to keep ‘em still

     Be on time.

If you want to feel content,

Be on time with every cent

That’s the way the deal was meant –

     Be on time.

If you want to catch a train

     Be on time;

If you’re not you’ll run in vain –

     Be on time.

Laggards never win the day,

Tardiness will never pay,

Hustle to it, that’s the way –

     Be on time.

March 31, 1913

For Friday, Apr. 4, ‘13