Uplifting Songs ‎#112

112. Danger

1 Write it on the workhouse gate,
Write it on the schoolboy’s slate;
Write it on the copy book,
That the young may often look,
“Where there’s drink, there is danger.”

2 Write it on the churchyard mound,
Where the rum slain dead are found;
Write it on the gallows high,
Write for all the passers by,
“Where there’s drink, there is danger.”

3 Write it in the nation’s laws,
Blotting out the license clause;
Write it on each ballot white,
So it can be read aright,
“Where there’s drink, there is danger.”

4 Write it on our ships that sail,
Borne along by storm and gale;
Write it large, in letters plain,
Over ev’ry land and main,
“Where there’s drink, there is danger.”

5 Write it over ev’ry gate,
On the church and halls of state,
In the heart of ev’ry band,
On the laws of every land,
“Where there’s drink, there is danger.”

Text Information

• First Line: Write it on the workhouse gate
• Title: Danger
• Author: Francis E. Willard
• Publication Date: 1917
• Topic: Temperance
• Notes: Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: [Write it on the workhouse gate]
• Composer: C. Harold Lowden
• Notes: Public Domain.