Some Interesting Facts About The WAR BONDS You Own.
U.S. Government Printing Office, Ca. 1940s
— PART 8 —
THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY;
BUY WAR BONDS!
“Any Bonds Today?”
By Irving Berlin
The tall man with the high hat and the whiskers on his chin
Will soon be knocking at your door and you ought to be in.
The tall man with the high hat will be coming down your way,
Get your savings out when you hear him shout “Any bonds today?”
Any bonds today?
Bonds of freedom
That’s what I’m selling
Any bonds today?
Scrape up the most you can,
Here comes the freedom man,
Asking you to buy a share of freedom today.
Any stamps today?
We’ll be blest
If we all invest
In the U.S.A.
Here comes the freedom man,
Can’t make tomorrow’s plan,
Not unless you buy a share of freedom today.
First came the Czechs and then came the Poles,
And then the Norwegians with three million souls.
Then came the Dutch, the Belgians and France
Then all of the Balkans with hardly a chance.
It’s all in the Book if only you look
It’s there if you read the text.
They fell ev’ry one at the point of a gun,
America mustn’t be next.
Any bonds today?
All you give
Will be spent to live
In the Yankee way.
Scrape up the most you can
Here comes the freedom man
Asking you to buy a share of freedom today.