Every Day

Life is growin’ brighter

     Every day;

Souls are growin’ whiter

     Every day.

Birds are singin’ sweeter,

Girls are lookin’ neater,

Life it grows completer,

     Every day.

What’s the use uv sighin’

     Any day?

What’s the use uv cryin’,

     Any day?

Wear an’ tear is killin’,

Sorrer is too willin’,

Don’t yewr tears be spillin’,

     Any day.

Keep you song a goin’

     Every day;

Keep your music flowin’

     Every day.

Cast off sad repinin’,

Shine the murky linin’;

Keep the sun a shinin’

     Every day.

May 26, 1896

Pub. in N.Y. World,

Sep. 6, ‘96