The Rich Man
Franklin P. Adams
1881 to 1960
Track 1
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The rich man has his motor-car,
His country and ______ town estate.
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar
And jeers ______ Fate.
He frivols through the livelong day,
He knows ______ Poverty her pinch.
His lot seems light, his heart ______ gay,
He has a cinch.
Yet though my lamp ______ low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood—
______ you that I would change with him?
You bet ______ would!
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