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Any Bonds Today Lyrics
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
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?"
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
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
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
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
Song Info
Submitted by
sillybunny On Sep 18, 2006
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While Norman Rockwell was the war bond drives’ most notable artist, Irving Berlin was its’ most celebrated composer. In 1941, as his contribution to the national defense effort, Berlin, composer of God Bless America in 1939, wrote Any Bonds Today? This song became the theme song of Treasury's National Defense Savings Program. Many copies of the sheet music were distributed to help the Government make the public aware of the savings bonds and savings stamps program. In publishing this song, Berlin copyrighted it in the name of "Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, DC." Among others, the famous Andrews Sisters were the primary performers known for this historic song. The song was also featured in Berlin’s musical “Blue Skies.”
{Wikipedia} Any Bonds Today? is a 1942 one and a half minute propaganda film distributed by Warner Bros. during World War II. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger's Termite Terrace studio and directed by Bob Clampett for the U.S. Treasury Department. (The song for the short had been written by none other than Irving Berlin.) The short had Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Porky Pig encouraging theater audiences to buy bonds for the war effort. An already short cartoon, even by the standards of film cartoon shorts (which rarely exceeded ten minutes in length), the film has been shortened in most releases today even further to excise a sequence where Bugs Bunny parodies a black-faced Al Jolson.