Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — “GAY AND HAPPY.” [ARTICLE]

“GAY AND HAPPY.”

I AM the girl that’s gay and happy Wheresoe’er I chance to be, And I’ll do my best to please you , If you will but list to me. CHORUS. So let the wild world wag as ft will. We'll be gay and happy still; Gay and happy, gay and happy, We’ll be gay and happy still. If the president should sit beside me I’d sing my song with usual glee. Fools might laugh and knaves deride me; I will gay and happy be. The rich have cares we know little of. And all that glitters Is not gold. Merit seldom made a show of, And true worth is rarely told. I envy neither great nor wealthy; Poverty I ne’er despise. Let me be contented, healthy. And the boon I’ll dearly prize. I care for all, yet care for-no man; Those who do will ward oft fear. I love a man and like a woman; What else makes this life so dear. —Unidentified.