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 Uncle Sam's 
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 A Patriotic Exercise 
 
 BY 
 
 EFFA E. PRESTON 
 
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ICLE SAM'S RIGHT ARM 
 
 A Patriotic Exercise 
 
 BY 
 
 EFFA E. PRESTON 
 
 
 MARCH BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. 
 
 208, 210, 212 Wright Ave., Lebanon, O. 
 

 Copyright, 1918, by 
 MARCH BROTHERS. 
 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 Ten girls in white sing, air, "Annie Laurie". 
 
 1 
 
 When war clouds dim the sunshine 
 
 And shadow all the land, 
 When our country goes to battle 
 
 With foes on every hand, 
 * Tis then the call comes clear 
 
 To loyal hearts and true 
 To lay down their lives and fortunes 
 
 For our own red, white and blue. 
 
 2 
 Our lovely starry banner 
 
 Defeat must never know, 
 For it stands for truth and freedom 
 
 Where'er its colors blow. 
 Then pledge your faith anew 
 
 A vow to Liberty, 
 Which shall never cease to bless us 
 
 'Neath the banner of the free. 
 
 Enter Uncle Sam, a hoy dressed in usual cos- 
 tume. He stands in center of stage while girls 
 who sang group themselves at hack of stage, 
 
 3 
 
4 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 Uncli: Sam : 
 
 I am America's Uncle Sam, 
 
 Democracy's pioneer. 
 I have sent a message across the sea 
 
 That other lands may hear; 
 And there comes to us now a call for aid' 
 
 For her cause has suffered harm, 
 And Democracy turns for protection now 
 
 To your Uncle Sam's strong right arm. 
 And I — in turn — am asking you 
 
 What help you will give to me. 
 And what will you do to make the world 
 
 Safe for Democracy. 
 A splendid army you've given me 
 
 But the fight has just begun 
 And men must be training all the time 
 
 For the work is not yet done. 
 So teach the little children, too, 
 
 A patriotic zeal 
 And they will be ready, if ever there's need, 
 
 To answer a world's appeal. 
 
 Enter 12 small boys in soldier suits. They 
 advance to front of stage. Uncle Sam standing at 
 one side. At conclusion of speeches soldiers 
 step to back of stage. Bach group take same 
 positions before and after speaking and singing. 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 Aivi. SoLDiKRS: 
 
 When each of us becomes a man 
 He'll be a soldier if he can. 
 1st. I'd like to be a drummer boy. 
 
 I'd beat a charge with vim and joy. 
 2nd. I'd be a trumpeter. I'd never sound retreat 
 But call the men from hill and glen the 
 enemy to meet. 
 3rd. I'd love to be a gunner and make the 
 cannon roar. 
 A lot of gunners, brave and strong, I'm 
 sure would end this war. 
 4th. I'll be an aviator and like a bird I'll fly 
 Within my shining airship, away up in the 
 sky. 
 5th. I'll drive a Red Cross ambulance and all 
 the wounded men 
 I'll take away from battle fields, till they 
 are well again. 
 6th. Some one must feed the soldiers and I 
 think I'd like to cook. 
 I don't know how to do it, but you learn 
 it from a book. 
 7th. I'd love to ride on horseback in every 
 big parade, 
 But when it comes to battles I think I'd 
 be afraid. 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 8th. I'd like to be a general, like Joffre, so 
 good and wise 
 And find myself a hero in every nation's 
 eyes. 
 9tli. I'd Hke to be as famous as the mighty 
 General Foche 
 Who leads the allied armies to war 
 against the Boche. 
 10th. I'd like to lead our army Hke General 
 Pershing, he 
 Is just the biggest hero in all the world 
 to me. 
 11th. I guess ril be a private. We can't all 
 heroes be, 
 But anyway, I know I'll serve my country 
 faithfully. 
 12th. I'll be the color bearer and hold our flag 
 on high, 
 And always, o'er the battle field, it will in 
 victory fly. 
 All. We'll serve our country and our flag and 
 serve them faithfully 
 And all be valiant soldiers when men we 
 grow to be. 
 UncIvE Sam : 
 
 Don't fail to help the Red Cross, too, 
 Theirs is a noble task. 
 
Unck Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 They ease the dying, cure the hurt, 
 So give whene'er they ask. 
 Enter any number girls dressed as Red Cross 
 nurses. They sing air, '"Yankee Doodle", 
 
 1. 
 
 We'll bandage you and bleed you, too, 
 We'll give you pills and potions, 
 
 We'll bathe your hot and aching brow 
 With cool and soothing lotions. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Red Cross nurses wise are we 
 
 Red Cross nurses dandy. 
 If you get wounded don't be scared, 
 
 You'll always find us handy. 
 
 2 
 
 We'll tend the wounded under fire 
 
 In scientific manner, 
 We'll do our best for all who fight 
 
 Beneath our starry banner. Chorus. 
 
 UncIvK Sam : 
 
 Children can help to win the war 
 
 If they save each penny and dime. 
 If they do without candy and movies and gum 
 
 They'll have a quarter in time. 
 And a quarter will buy a Thrift Stamp 
 
 So, children, all of you try 
 For every little Thrift Stamp 
 
8 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 Is a War Stamp by and by. 
 
 Enter 12 girls in white holding green cards 
 on which are huge white letters spelling Thrift 
 Stamps. 
 1st. Tiny little Thrift Stamps, bright and green 
 
 and new, 
 2nd. Help us on to victory. Won't you buy a 
 
 few? 
 3rd. Reach into your pocket, just a dime each 
 
 day 
 4th. Tf you only give it for many things will 
 
 pay. 
 5th. Food and ships and shelter, clothing, 
 
 swords and guns 
 6th. Till an army, well equipped, goes to fight 
 
 the Huns. 
 7th. Save your pennies, children, send them 
 
 o'er the foam, 
 8th. Till the war is over and the boys come 
 
 home. 
 
 9th. Are you patriotic? Then you musn't 
 shirk. 
 
 10th. Make your pennies soldiers, make your 
 
 quarters work. 
 11th. Proud you'll be of helping when the war 
 
 is done, 
 
 12th. So buy a Thrift Stamp every day till the 
 fight is won. 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 All. Do your bit for Uncle Sam, Make your 
 money fight 
 Till the strife is ended with victory for 
 the right. 
 UncIve: Sam : 
 
 Every War Saving Stamp that you buy 
 
 Is a step on the road to Berlin. 
 So purchase as many as ever you can 
 And the war we soon shall win. 
 
 Enter any number girls in green with letters 
 
 W S S on zvaist. Letters may he cut from white 
 
 paper. They sing, air, ''Coming Through the 
 
 Rye-, 
 
 1 
 
 We are stamps of vast importance 
 
 Everybody knows. 
 Every sale of us, remember, 
 Helps defeat our foes. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Saving Stamps you all must purchase — 
 
 Help the war to win, 
 So send us smiling on our way 
 
 Until we reach Berlin! 
 
 2 
 
 Save your pennies, dimes .and quarters 
 Save them constantly 
 
10 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 Till you have enough to buy us, 
 Send us o'er the sea. Chorus. 
 
 Unci.e: Sam : 
 
 If you can't fight your money can — 
 
 Don't own a slacker dollar, 
 But send it straightway "Over There" 
 
 'Twill make the kaiser holler! 
 Buy bonds, buy bonds for I^iberty 
 
 And loan the U S A 
 Each cent that you can live without, 
 
 'Twill surely save the day. 
 
 Enter 12 girls in zvhite with red, white and 
 blue sashes and gilt paper crowns, to represent 
 Liberty. They carry red letters spelling I^ibe^rty 
 Bonds. 
 
 1st. L,et every patriot do his best and help to 
 
 win the war with zest. 
 2nd. Invest your money in a bond, and to your 
 
 country's call respond. 
 3rd. Better a loan to win the war than tribute 
 
 to a conqueror. 
 4th. Even the smallest bond may save the life 
 
 of many a soldier brave. 
 5th. Remember if you do not go your money 
 
 should, so don't be slow. 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 11 
 
 6th. To save Democracy we fight so aid the 
 
 cause with all your might. 
 7th. You know we're in the fight to stay so 
 
 buy a bond or two today. 
 8th. Be generous, it is the due of those who 
 
 give their lives for you. 
 9th. Over the seas, amid the fray, their fate 
 
 depends on us today. 
 10th. Now let us send with lavish hand our 
 
 money to the gallant band. 
 11th. Don't put it off, don't hesitate, next 
 
 month, next year, may be" too late. 
 12th. So buy a bond for Liberty, and send your 
 
 money o'er the sea. 
 
 Unclk Sam: . 
 
 I view with pride my bold marmes 
 
 Who sail the raging sea. 
 As fighters they are wonderful, 
 So fierce and brave they be. 
 Enter lo boys in sailor costume. They sing, 
 air, ''Sailing''. 
 
 Heave ho! my lads. We must away 
 
 And anchor raise while yet 'tis day 
 
 For far across the waters blue 
 
 Our bark will bear its gallant crew. 
 
 Our country's foes we gladly go to fight ^ 
 
 While o'er us floats our starry banner bright. 
 
12 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Then here's to our country and here's to the red, 
 
 white and blue 
 May it wave in every port the wide world thru. 
 Sailing, .sailing, over the dashing foam 
 Full many a stormy sky shall frown 
 Ere the sailor lads come home. 
 
 2. . 
 We'll chase the U-boats from the sea — 
 
 They shall no more a danger be, 
 
 And he who sails the ocean clear 
 
 With us to guide need have no fear. 
 
 We're bold marines who dearly love to fight 
 
 While o'er us floats our starry banner bright. 
 
 They may do Sailor's Hornpipe if desired. 
 
 Uncli; Sam : 
 
 You all have heard the story 
 
 How the Minute Men of old 
 Were ever at their Country's call — 
 
 So watchful and so bold. 
 They carried warning thru the night 
 
 Which led to victory 
 And gathered all the patriots 
 
 To fight for Liberty. 
 Like them are my Four Minute Men 
 
 Who speak instead of fight 
 And urge a listening country 
 ' To aid the caiise of right. 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 13 
 
 Four Minute Men — Five hoys dressed in colon- 
 ial costume if desired. 
 
 1st. In every large assembly 
 
 We're always sure to be. 
 2nd. We speak on many subjects 
 
 Dear to Democracy. 
 3rd. We speak about the Stamps and Bonds 
 
 And urge you all to buy. 
 4th. Because it's necessary 
 
 And tell the reason why. 
 5th. We thus reach many people 
 
 Who otherwise would say 
 
 "No one asked me to buy a thing" 
 
 And try to shirk that way. 
 All. We're like the Minute Men of old 
 
 Altho we do not fight 
 
 We bring a warning message 
 
 That you may aid the right. 
 
 Uncle Sam : 
 
 My aviators rule the air 
 They wing their way on high 
 And soon they'll drive the enemy 
 Forever from the sky. 
 
 Aviators — ii boys in aviator's costume. 5 of 
 them speak. 
 
14 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 1st. We're Uncle ' Sam's birdmen, with tem- 
 perament strange 
 For we're usually up in the air 
 When it comes to a fight with a foe in 
 
 the clouds 
 No others with us can compare. 
 2nd. We swoop thru the air like a bird on the 
 
 wing 
 We circle, we dive, and we rise. 
 High up o'er the world with our hearts 
 
 free from care 
 We speed on our path thru the skies. 
 3rd. If the plane of an enemy ever approaches 
 In battle we promptly engage. 
 Till the foe falls in ruins, down, down 
 
 to the earth 
 Our warfare relentless we wage. 
 4th. With nerves that are steady, with eyes 
 
 that are keen 
 We traverse the uncharted blue 
 And we call to the stars and the moon 
 
 as we pass 
 And they twinkle as if they all knew. 
 5th. From the skies of the world all intruders 
 
 we'll drive 
 And the air raids shall quite cease to be 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 15 
 
 When we're finished there won't be a 
 
 Zeppelin left 
 To annoy this fair land of the free. 
 
 They sing, air, "Kentucky Home" . This is 
 very effective if accompanied zvith appropriate 
 gestures. 
 
 1. 
 Just gaze on us, for we're aviators bold 
 We circle and turn in the air. 
 We loop the loop and we dive and mount and 
 
 glide 
 And our hearts are gay and free from care. 
 Our eyes are bright and our nerves are firm as* 
 
 steel 
 We're rising — we're sinking below — 
 We show the world that we're monarchs of the 
 
 air 
 As far up above the clouds we go. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Left — then right — we're swerving — 
 And now we drop below 
 Then we rise on high, soaring thru the pathless 
 
 sky 
 Far, far up above the clouds we shall go. 
 
 * 2. 
 
 My aeroplane will respond to every wish 
 
 It hums as it rises on high. 
 
16 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 It seems to love thus to leave the world behind 
 
 Like a bird it v^ings across the sky 
 
 The sun by day and the twinkling stars at night 
 
 Look down in amaze and surprise 
 
 Our hearts will thrill as the wild wind whistles 
 
 past 
 While we wing our swift way thru the skies. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Unclk Sam : 
 
 A hungry army can never fight, 
 
 So we must feed our men, 
 And the one who stays at home and plants 
 
 In every meadow and glen 
 And raises the grain to give them bread 
 
 Is patriot, brave and true 
 As any soldier who fights today 
 
 'Neath the red, the white, the blue. 
 
 Enter farmers, lo boys in overalls and straw 
 hats, carrying hoes, rakes, etc. They sing, air, 
 "Vive U Amour" . 
 
 1 
 
 We plant and we spade and we rake and we hoe 
 
 All for the soldier boys, 
 We dig and we harrow, we plant and we sow. 
 
 All for our soldier boys. 
 
Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 17 
 
 Chorus. 
 Sing of the farmers, the patriots true 
 Raising the wheat and the golden corn too. 
 Gladly we toil, tilling the soil, 
 All for our soldier bovs. 
 
 2, 
 
 We'll feed all the allies till victory is won 
 
 Won by our soldier boys, 
 And welcome them home when their great task is. 
 done, 
 Welcome our soldier boys. Chorus. 
 Uncle Sam : 
 
 With helpers such as these 'tis plain 
 
 Our victory is assured. 
 And not in vain the hardships 
 
 Our braye boys have endured. 
 We'll make the whole wide world today 
 
 Safe for Democracy, 
 And the Stars and Stripes shall ever float 
 O'er the Land of Liberty. 
 
 All sing, air, ''Drink to Me Onlv With Thine 
 
 Bycs'\ 
 
 All hail the banner of the free, the bonny Stripes 
 
 and Stars. 
 Of purity the white stars speak, no stain their 
 
 beauty mars. 
 
18 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 
 
 A sign of valor you niay read within its crimson 
 bars 
 
 The blue field stands for truth and hope, illum- 
 ined by Heaven's own stars. 
 
 2 
 O'er it the light of victory shall ever brightly 
 
 shine. 
 For freedom, justice and the right, 'twill ever be 
 
 the sign. 
 Then may it proudly float on high, this flag of 
 
 yours and mine. 
 And may the bonny Stripes and Stars with 
 
 added lustre shine. 
 
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