Any Other Time
All of us play our very best game—Any other time.Golf or billiards, it’s all the same—Any other time.Lose a match and you always say,‘Just my luck! I was ‘off’ to-day!I could have beaten him quite half-way—Any other time!’
After a fiver you ought to go—Any other time.Every man that you ask says ‘Oh,Any OTHER time.Lend you a fiver! I’d lend you two,But I’m overdrawn and my bills are due,Wish you’d ask me—now, mind you do—Any other time!’
Fellows will ask you out to dine—Any other time.‘Not to-night, for we’re twenty-nine—Any other time.Not to-morrow, for cook’s on strike,Not next day, I’ll be out on the bike—Just drop in whenever you like—Any other time!’
Seasick passengers like the sea—Any other time.‘Something . . I ate . . disagreed . . with me!Any other timeOcean-trav’lling is . . simply bliss,Must be my . . liver . . has gone amiss . .Why, I would . . laugh . . at a sea . . like this—Any other time.’
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Most of us mean to be better men—Any other time:Regular upright characters then—Any other time.Yet somehow as the years go byStill we gamble and drink and lie,When it comes to the last we’ll want to die—Any other time!