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Anonymous Americas Poems
- The Man In The Glass When you get what you want in your ...
- I Saw Three Ships I saw three ships come sailing in ...
- A Son Of A Gun I wish I had a barrel of rum and sugar three ...
- God And The Soldier God and the soldier All men adore In ...
- Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt? Were beth they that biforen us...
- O Death, O Death, Rock Me Asle... O Death, O Death, rock ...
- A Riddle Legs I have got, yet seldom do I walk; I backbite ...
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The Man In The Glass
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
and the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
and see what that man has to say
For it isn't your father or mother or wife
who judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts the most in your life
is the one staring back from the glass
Some people may think you a straight-shooting chum
and call you a wonderful guy
But the guy in the glass says you're only a bum
if you can't look him straight in the eye
He's the fellow to please never mind all the ...
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