Chant Royal Of The Tramp Royal

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Chant Royal Of The Tramp Royal</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div> <I><B>Stranger, I thank you, now I've cleaned my plate;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>It's fine of you to feed a wanderin' guy</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That happens to be knockin' at yer gate</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Weary an' faint, without a cent to buy.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That grub has braced me up. I'm gettin' gray,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' can't fast like when I was gay</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' careless youngster, crammed with energy,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Who swaggered down the road in careless glee</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In days that's gone an' passed beyond recall,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When I set out an' cried back recklessly,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"The world is wide an' I ain't seen it all!"</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I worked at many jobs, an' some was straight</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' some was crooked as a crooked lie,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' yet no place could hold me, soon or late</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'd shake its dust; fer somethin' in the sky</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Er in the winds kept callin' me. Say</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When once you hear those voices thataway,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>There ain't no promise an' there ain't no fee</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Kin hold you quiet, you are out of key</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With home-kept folk, your job begins to pall!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' so I'd quit, with this my only plea,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"The world is wide an' I ain't seen it all!"</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>At first my road ran only  State to State,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>City to city when the pay was high;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'd beat my way by passenger er freight;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>There wasn't much that missed my eager eye.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But when I see a vessel where she lay</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Along the dock in San Francisco Bay</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I shipped aboard her, longin' fer to flee</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To strange, far lands of myth an' mystery.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' though the life would make yer flesh to crawl,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I learned a lot--but still my cry must be,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"The world is wide an' I ain't seen it all!"</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>To keep on goin' was my restless fate.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I couldn't quit an' didn't care to try;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Fer there was things to view both small an' great;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Lands where you freeze an' countries where you fry,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Deserts like brass an' islands drenched in spray,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Queer, hidden places where the pilgrims stray,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' men an' women, Malay an' Chinese,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Christian an' heathen, high an' low degree,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Fightin' an' lovin' on this "earthly ball,"</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>What wonder I obeyed my youth's decree,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"The world is wide an' I ain't seen it all!"</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Yes, there was women wanted me to wait,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But I--I heard the voice that drowned their cry;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>It's not for me to settle down an' mate,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The wander fever's got me till I die.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Soft hands might clutch me, but I couldn't stay,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>There was the road to go, the game to play!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' though the children clamber on my knee</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To hear my tales, there's none belongs to me,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>No that will lift me kindly when I fall.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>All that I have is life--an' liberty!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"The world is wide an' I ain't seen it all!"</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>                              Envoy</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Stranger, my thanks an' best regards to ye,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Fer kindness an' a welcome warm an' free.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But--there's the road, I can't shake off its thrall,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' there's so far to go--so much to see;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"The world is wide an' I ain't seen it all!"</B></I></div> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="popular_magazine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Popular Magazine"><U><I>The Popular Magazine</I></U></A><I> - June 1, 1911</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>