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Would that someone would knock Mr Bryan into a cocked hat WOODROW WILSON	A
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It ain't really a hat at all Ed	B
You know that don't you	C
When you bowl over six out of the nine pins	D
And the three that are standing	E
Are the triangular three in front	F
You've knocked the nine into a cocked hat	G
If it was really a hat he would be knocked in too	C
Which he hardly is For a man with money	H
And a man who can draw a crowd to listen	A
To what he says ain't all in yet	I
Oh yes defeated	J
And killed off a dozen times but still	K
He's one of the three nine pins that's standing	E
Eh Why the other is Teddy the other	L
Wilson we'll say We'll see perhaps	M
But six are down to make the cocked hat	G
That's me and thousands of others like me	H
And the first rate men who were cuffed about	N
After the Civil War	O
And most of the more than six million men	P
Who followed this fellow into the ditch	Q
While he walked down the ditch and stepped to the level	R
Following an ideal	S
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Do you remember how slim he was	T
And trim he was	T
With black hair and pale brow	U
And the hawk like nose and flashing eyes	V
Not turning slowly like an owl	W
But with a sudden eagle motion	A
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One time in ' he came here	X
And we had just a dollar and sixty cents	Y
In the treasury of the organization	A
So I stuck his lithograph on a pole	Z
And started out for the station	A
By the time we got back here to Clark street	A2
Four thousand men were marching in line	B2
And a band that was playing for an opening	E
Of a restaurant on Franklin street	A2
Had left the job and was following his carriage	C2
Why it took all the money Mark Hanna could raise	D2
To beat me with nothing but a pole	Z
And a lithograph	E2
And it wasn't because he was one of the prophets	F2
Come back to earth again	P
It shows how human hearts are hungry	H
How wonderfully true they are	G2
And how they will rise and follow a man	H2
Who seems to see the truth	I2
Well these fellows who marched are the cocked hat	G
And I am the cocked hat and the six millions	J2
And more are the cocked hat	G
Who got themselves despised or suspected	J
Of ignorance or something for being with him	K2
But still he's one of the pins that's standing	E
He got the money that he went after	L
And he has a place in history perhaps	M
Because we took the blow and fell down	L2
When the ripping ball went wild on the alley	H
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For we were radicals	M2
And he wasn't a radical	R
Eh Why a radical stands for freedom	N2
And for truth which he never finds	O2
But always looks for	O
A radical is not a moralist	P2
A radical doesn't say	Q2
This is true and you must believe it	R2
This is good and you must accept it	R2
And if you don't believe it and accept it	R2
We'll get a law and make you	C
And if you don't obey the law we'll kill you	C
Oh no A radical stands for freedom	N2
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Do you remember that banquet at the Tremont	F
In ' on Jackson's day	Q2
Bryan and Altgeld walked together	L
Out to the banquet room	S2
That's the time he said the bolters must	T2
Bring fruits meet for repentance ha ha Oh Gawd	T2
They never did it and they didn't have to	T2
For they had made friends of the mammon of unrighteousness	Q2
Even as he did a little later in his own way	Q2
Well Darrow was there that night	T2
I thought it was terribly raw in him	K2
But he said to Bryan there in a group	U2
You'd better go back to Lincoln and study	T2
Science history philosophy	T2
And read Flaubert's Madam something or other	L
And quit this village religious stuff	V2
You're head of the party before you are ready	T2
And a leader should lead with thought	T2
And Bryan turned to the others and said	T2
Darrow's the only man in the world	T2
Who looks down on me for believing in God	T2
Your kind of a God snapped Darrow	W2
Honest Ed I didn't see this religious business	Q2
In Bryan in ' or	O
Oh well I knew he went to Church	X2
And talked as statesmen do of God	T2
But McKinley did it and I used to laugh	E2
We've got a man to match McKinley	T2
And it's good for us in a squeeze like this	Q2
We didn't nominate some fellow	W2
Ethical culture or Unitarian	A
You see the newspapers and preachers then	P
Were raising such a hullabaloo	T2
About irreligion and dishonesty	T2
And calling old Altgeld an anarchist	T2
And comparing us to Robespierre	O
And the guillotine boys in France	Q2
And a little of this religion came in handy	T2
The same as if you saw a Mason button on me	T2
You'd know you see but Gee	T2
He was carat religious	Q2
A cover to cover man	H2
He was a trained collie	T2
And he looked like a lion	A
There in the convention of ' What do you know about that	T2
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But right here I tell you he ain't a hypocrite	T2
This ain't a pose But I'll tell you	T2
In ' when they knocked him out	T2
I know what he said to himself as well	Y2
As if I heard him say it	T2
I'll tell you in a minute	T2
But suppose you were giving a lecture on the constitution	A
And you got mixed on your dates	Q2
And the audience rotten egged you	T2
And some one in the confusion	A
Stole the door receipts	Q2
And there you were disgraced and broke	Z2
But suppose you could just change your clothes	Q2
And lecture to the same audience	Q2
On the religious nature of Washington	A
And be applauded and make money	T2
You'd do it wouldn't you	T2
Well this is what Bill said to himself	A3
I'm naturally regular and religious	Q2
I'm a moral man and I can prove it	T2
By any one in Marion County	T2
Or Jacksonville or Lincoln Nebraska	B3
I'm a radical but a radical	R
Alone can be religious	Q2
I belong to the church if not to the bank	C3
Of the people who defeated me	T2
And I'll prove to religious people	R
That I'm a man to be trusted	T2
And just what a radical is	Q2
And I'll make some money while winning the votes	Q2
Of the churches over the country	T2
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That's it it ain't hypocrisy	T2
It's using what you are for ends	Q2
When you find yourself in trouble	R
And this accounts for The Prince of Peace	Q2
Except no one but him could write it	T2
And The Value of an Ideal	S
Which is money in bank and several farms	Q2
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His place in history	T2
One time my grandfather who was nearly blind	T2
Went out to sow some grass seed	T2
They had two sacks in the barn	D3
One with grass seed one with fertilizer	O
And he got the sack with fertilizer	O
And scattered it over the ground	T2
Thinking he was sowing grass	Q2
And as he was finishing up a grandchild	T2
Dorothy eight years old	T2
Followed him dropping flower seeds	Q2
Well after a time	E3
That was the greatest patch of weeds	Q2
You ever saw And the old man sat	T2
Half blind on the porch and said	T2
Good land that grass is growing	E
And there was nothing but weeds except	T2
A few nasturtiums here and there	O
That Dorothy had sown	F3
Well I forgot	T2
There was a sunflower in one corner	O
That looked like a man with a golden beard	T2
And a mass of tangled curly hair	O
And a pumpkin growing near it	T2
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Say Ed lend me eighty dollars	Q2
To pay my life insurance	Q2