Any Other Time

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 ny luck! I was 'off' today! 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-travelling 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!