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Just Try To Be The Fellow That Your Mother Thinks You Are

  • Author: Adkin, Will S.
  • Editor: B-6591
  • Newspaper: The Umpire volume 2
  • Page Number:
  • Date: 6 18 1913
  • Tags:
  • poetry
  • mothers

Just Try To Be The Fellow That Your Mother Thinks You Are Whilst walking down a crowded city street the other day, I heard a little urchin to a comrade turn and say- "Say, Chimmey, lemme tell youse, I'd be happy as a clam If I only was the fellow dat me mudder tinks I am, She tinks I am a wonder, an' she knows her little lad Could never mix wit' nutting dat was ugly mean or bad. Oh lots o' times I set and tink, how nice 'twould be, gee whiz! If a feller was de feller that his mudder tinks he is." My friends, be yours a life of toil, or undiluted joy, You still can learn a lesson from this small unlettered boy. Don't try to be an earthly saint with eyes fixed on the stars, Just try to be the fellow that your mother thinks yon are. -Will S. Adkin.