ALL of us play our very best game-
Any other time.
Golf or billiards, it’s all the same-
Any other time.
Lose a match and you always say,
“Just my luck! I was ‘off’ to-day!
I could have beaten him quite half-way-
Any other time!”
After a fiver you ought to go-
Any other time.
Every man that you ask says “Oh,
Any other time.
Lend you a fiver! I’d lend you two,
But I’m overdrawn and my bills are due,
Wish you’d ask me-now, mind you do-
Any other time!”
Fellows will ask you out to dine-
Any other time.
“Not to-night, for we’re twenty-nine –
Any other time.
Not to-morrow, for cook’s on strike,
Not next day, I’ll be out on the bike –
Just drop in whenever you like –
Any other time!”
Seasick passengers like the sea-
Any other time.
“Something . . I ate . . disagreed . . with me!
Any other time
Ocean-trav’lling is . . simply bliss,
Must be my . . liver . . has gone amiss . .
Why, I would . . laugh . . at a sea . . like this-
Any other time.”
Most of us mean to be better men-
Any other time:
Regular upright characters then-
Any other time.
Yet somehow as the years go by
Still we gamble and drink and lie,
When it comes to the last we’ll want to die-
Any other time!