When You Have Money to Burn

You oft see the fellow

Who’s just a bit mellow

Who, though quite young, is too old to learn;

     Who says with all bluster

     And brag he can muster

That he has got money to burn.

     He;s a figure of pity,

     In village or city,

The fellow who always has money to burn;

     Because he who burns it

     Is not he who earns it,

But both as a rule are done to a turn.

     If you have got money

     For burning, now sonny,

Don’t kindle a fire on the bar;

     But take your bright showing

     And start a fire going

Down where the poor, needy ones are.

     Don’t be yourself greedy,

     But warm up the needy,

And do fellow beings a turn;

     Let your fires light the quarters

     Or drear sons and daughters,

If you have got money to burn.

May 3, ‘10