Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Labor Day/Work and Reward

by Jason Elmer Hammond

WORK AND REWARD.

(Air: “Marching Through Georgia.”)

True Freedom’s blessings have been won for our beloved land,
And soon we’ll see full busy days for every willing hand;
Prosperity to bless us all and cheerful lives command;
    Hard times be driven far away.

Chorus:—Cheer up! hurrah! the Old Flag’s floating high!
    Hurrah! hurrah! the hard time’s nearly by!
’Mid truest peace we gladly see prosperity is nigh,
      Work and reward for the millions.

For industry has always been America’s true pride,
Where idle none need ever be, with work on ev’ry side;
We’ll have it so again, my friends, turn on the prosp’rous tide.
    Fill all the workers’ hands with gain.
 
The dudes and noodles, cads and snobs, had better move away,
This busy land can’t spare the room for lazies, such as they.
To foreign climate let them go and there forever stay.
    Ours is a land for busy workers.