American Old Time Song Lyrics: 16 Just To Make A Change In Business All Around

Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 16

Just to Make a Change in Business All Around.

Since new songs are all the rage
In this great and glorious age.
On some things I surely will propound;
Of things I'd like to see,
And of things that ought to be,
Just to make a change in business all around.
Ben Butler's eye get straight,
Roscoe Conklin retire from State,
The Chicago dynamiters all go down;
I'd have poor little Jimmie Blaine
An nominated again,
Just to make a change in business all around.

Give the workingmen a show,
Tell the Chinaman he must go,
And don't let capital labor try to down;
For if the rich would only give
The poor man a chance to live,
What a change it would make in business all around,
The St. Louis strike is at an end,
Jay Gould to the workingman's no friend,
He's made business dull all over town;
The people give him an awful blast,
The Knights of Labor are working at last,
And they make a change in business all around.

Now I think it is but right
For to mention here to-night,
A few things that's going on around your town;
Make your married men stay at home
And let other men's wives alone,
And you'll make a change in business all around.
Give the dear girl's a chance,
And I'll bet they'll wear men's pants,
And when the Black Crook show comes to town.
We'll make every man's mother-in-law
Put a padlock on her jaw,
And you'll make a change in business all around.