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     HAVE PATIENCE
         By Berton Braley

Moonshine is plenty, no doubt;
   Yes, you can get it, that true.
Just seek a bootlegger out,
   He'll sell his poison to you.
Still, booze is passing away,
   Thought there is many a leak;
Rum wasn't built in a day,
   Rum can't be smashed in a week.

Hooch has held man in its thrall,
   Age after age, it appears;
We can't get rid of it all
   Just in a couple of years!
There's bound to be some delay
   Getting the dryness we seek,
Rum wasn't built in a day,
   Rum can't be smashed in a week.

Taking their drinks from the mob
   Isn't a cinch, you can bet;
It is a wearisome job,
   Drying a land that was wet;
Still, we are winning the fray,
   Beating the bootlegging clique;
Rum wasn't built in a day,
   Rum can't be smashed in a week.

     (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

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