The Moving Picture Show

It’s necessary nowadays

     To have a goat, you know;

Something to blame for everything

That causes any woe.

If happiness should drop around,

     Of that we’d make no note;

But when we’ve got some blame to place

     We’ve got to have a goat.

And so, when someone robs a bank,

     Or burns a building low,

We’re prone to put the blame upon

     The moving picture show.

If youngsters rob our trees of fruit,

     Or seeds of evil sow,

They must have got their knowledge in

     The moving picture show.

If pa is sent down to the store

     And lingers, then we know

He’s slipped around the corner to

     A moving picture show!

And so the old excuses pass,

     A new one comes, and so

Whenever lightning strikes it is

     The moving picture show!

April 3, 1913

                   For Monday,

                       April 7