Ode to the Girls of Norfolk

Say, girl, I saw you sneer just now. Don't I look good to you? I'm not one of your kind, you say, for I wear the Navy Blue. You think that I'm not fine enough for such a girl as you, Men who would not have held your hand have worn the Navy Blue. You've barred us from your theaters and from your dance halls too, Where there is always room for everyone except the Navy Blue. How many folks in civil life will take the time to think, That sailor boys do other things, besides swear and drink? We are only common sailor boys, until war starts to brew, Then, dear friends, you are the first to cheer the men in Navy Blue. When some are dead, when some are gone, when life's last cruise is through, We'll not be barred from heaven for wearing Navy Blue. So, when you meet a sailor boy, I'd smile if I were you, No better men were made by God, than boys in Navy Blue.