(note that the various professions spell
out "Temperance" - see the sheet music
for performance suggestion)

Right welcome friends, and here we stand
All ready as you see
To choose a trade and form a band,
A teacher would I be.

chorus:
Hopeful band, hopeful band
Faithful may we be,
For the right and truth to stand
Firm and free.

All right, friend teacher, let me see
If I am called to chooses
And Editor I'd like to be
To hear and tell the news.

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I'll take your paper, Mr. E,
If I may join your band,
F I a merchange hope to be
A merchant rich and grand.

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Be true and honest, rich or not,
All ye who trade or teach,
And do your best whate'er your lot -
I think I'd like to preach.

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My choice, I'm free enough to say,
Perhaps you'll think it queer,
Would be, if I could have my way,
To be an engineer.

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I'll go to Congress, if I can,
I have a point in view,
I'll try to be an honest man
And be a ruler, too.

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No dwelling place with naked walls
A cheerful home can be;
A mystic voice my spirit calls,
An artist's brush for me.

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I'll preach and teach and read and write
And travel if I can,
I'll give whate'er my neighbors need
And be a Nice old man.

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I may not serve my country so
Nor live to be quite old,
So to the army I will go
To be a captain bold.

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For temperance my voice shall tell
Wheree're my way may wend,
If all be well that endeth well,
I'll answer to the End.

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