The Business Blues

Oh! Business men who are inclined To be a trifle blue, Find here ah anti-toxin for That sad cerulean hue.

Last Friday when our orator 'Mid cheers resumed his seat, The gentleman presiding Truly said we'd had a treat.

To begin at the beginning— Our chairman did aver That the speaker was ambassador To Good King Douglas Fir.

Perhaps he had not made two grow Where one had grown before, But he'd caused the demolition Of many thousand score.

Our speaker modestly denied His power to make them grow, But still where one had gone before He'd tried to make two go.

Till six years back, for thirty years But little change was shown; But since, not only twice as much, Ten times the trade had grown.

He built his case up, fact on fact, And proved, before he'd done, That we hadn't reached the limit But had only just begun.

So with the chairman, I repeat, Lumber and grain, these two, Increased and still increasing Leave no room for feeling blue.