“At duty’s call, with a smile for all,The Scout will do his part!”
Dave Baldwin paused for a minute to listen; then, as he swung his axe in a tremendous, final blow against the tottering oak, he too broke triumphantly into the refrain:—
“And we’ll shout, shout, shout,For the Scout, Scout, Scout,For the Scouts of the U.S.A!”
Transcriber's note:Both ‘Ne’er-do-weel’ and ‘Ne’er-do-well’ are used, so both spellings have been preserved.