Do What Is Right

If you have got a thing to do

     Do what is right;

If there’s a lot depends on you

     Do what is right.

Do what is right from day to day

And then your neighbors cannot say

A word against you, come what may –

     Do what is right.

If in the moonlight, on the porch,

     Do what is right;

Or out beneath the rays that scorch,

     Do what is right.

If tones are low, and voices sweet,

If cupid starts your heart to beat,

And lips are turned for you to meet

     Do what is right.

If you should find a friend in need

     Do what is right;

If you are needy, then indeed,

     Do what is right

Do what is right, whate’er you do,

Do other doers ere they do you,

But do not do what is not true,

     Do what is right.

May 5, 1913