PASS A LAW!

Are your neighbors very bad?

Pass a Law!

Do they smoke? Do they chew?

Are they always bothering you?

Don’t they do as you would do?

Pass a Law!

Are your wages awful low?

Pass a Law!

Are your prices much too high?

Do the wife and babies cry

’Cause the turkeys all roost high?

Pass a Law!

When M. D. finds new diseases,

Pass a Law!

Got the mumps or enfermisis?

Measles, croup or “expertesis?”

Lest we all fly to pieces

Pass a Law!

Are the lights a-burning red?

Pass a Law!

Paint ’em green, or paint ’em white!

Close up all them places tight!

My! Our town is such a sight!

Pass a Law!

No matter what the trouble,

Pass a Law!

Goodness sakes! But ain’t it awful?

My what are we going to do?

Almost anything ain’t lawful,

And the judges human, too!

Pass a Law!

_W. L. Wells._

(From The Index, Wash. State Ref.)