The poem
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!