ANY OTHER TIME Rio Grand 1902 family favourite

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 tonight, for we’re twenty-nine -
    Any other time.
Not tomorrow, 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 time
Ocean trav’lling is...simply bliss,
Must be my...liver...has gone amiss...
Why, I would laugh...at a sea...like this -
    Any other time."

Most of us mean to be better men -
    Any other time:
Regular upright characters then -
    Any other time.
Yet somehow as the years go by
Still we gamble and drink and lie,
When it comes to the last we’ll want to die -
    Any other time!