The Project Gutenberg eBook ofLumber LyricsThis ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online atwww.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.Title: Lumber LyricsAuthor: Walt MasonRelease date: March 18, 2022 [eBook #67649]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024Language: EnglishOriginal publication: United States: Curtis Service Bureau, 1919Credits: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LUMBER LYRICS ***
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Title: Lumber LyricsAuthor: Walt MasonRelease date: March 18, 2022 [eBook #67649]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024Language: EnglishOriginal publication: United States: Curtis Service Bureau, 1919Credits: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Title: Lumber Lyrics
Author: Walt Mason
Author: Walt Mason
Release date: March 18, 2022 [eBook #67649]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024
Language: English
Original publication: United States: Curtis Service Bureau, 1919
Credits: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LUMBER LYRICS ***
Christmas! And the bells are clanging! Christmas! And the goose is hanging high and joy’s abroad! Christmas is the happy season! Though the weather may be freezin’, human hearts are thawed! Here we see the ancient codger sporting like an artful dodger with the laughing kids; here we see the haughty chappie smiling broadly and as happy as the katydids. Every one has shed his sorrow, dropped his burden till tomorrow, dropped the world and care; Christmas is no time for sadness—all the world is full of gladness, each should have his share.
Therefore, if you deal in lumber, let your business rest and slumber, till the day is o’er; think no more of lath and plaster; frolic fast and frolic faster till you split the floor. Cast aside all thoughts of timber; show the folks your legs are limber, and your soul unspoiled; show your heart has not been toughened, show your nature’s not been roughened, by the years you’ve toiled. Let no thoughts of sash and siding your attention be dividing on this day of grace; help to fill with glee your shanty, till grandmother, sister, auntie, bless your cheer-up face.
Christmas! When the reindeer travel, and Old Santa scratches gravel, making good his dates! Men who don’t get good and mellow when is due that brave old fellow, surely are cheap skates. When the Christmas music’s rollin’, and the children’s socks are swollen, we should all be young; young as when we watched and waited for those reindeer, rapid-gaited, by the night wind stung. We can be as young in spirit as the kids, or pretty near it, if we only try, though our heads are gray and dusty and our joints are worn and rusty, and no longer spry. Then when Christmas time is ended and we to our tasks have wended, we shall bear away something of the youth we captured when the whole world was enraptured with its Christmas day.
CURTIS BROS. & CO.CLINTON, IOWACURTIS & YALE CO.WAUSAU, WIS.PITTSBURGH, PA.CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO.SIOUX CITY, IOWACURTIS, TOWLE & PAINE CO.LINCOLN, NEBR.TOPEKA, KAN.CURTIS-YALE-HOWARD CO.MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.CURTIS, BOOTH & BENTLEY CO.OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.CURTIS DOOR & SASH CO.CHICAGO, ILL.CURTIS DETROIT CO.DETROIT, MICH.CURTIS DAYTON CO.DAYTON, OHIO