ANTI-AMERICAN

Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3188, 14 August 1930, Page 3

ANTI-AMERICAN

VICAR’S EXTRAORDINARY SERMON. Instead of preaching from a conventional text, according to a report in the London Daily Sketch, the Rev. George Dymock, vicar of St. Bede’s Fishponds, Bristol, spoke on the following verses, “What I Don’t Like About America I don’t like their virgins or their vintage, Their gunmen, their bosses, or their guys; I’d rather have a cottage near the pavement Than one that goes a-soaring to the skies. I don’t like their traffic cops or judges, Their gansters, their grafters, or their crime; I’d rather see an honest pub in England That “ fall ” for a “ speakeasy ” or a dime. I don’t like their chewing-gum or canned stuff, Their dollars, their doctors, or their dope; I’d rather, if I must, die here in England Than suddenly bedropped by “ gat” or rope. * I don’t like their film fans or their talkies, Their sob-stuff, their sects, or “sunny boys”; I’d rather see a sunset on the Severn Than lounge about in tip-up seats with toys. But I most of all don’t like “ Old Glory,” And, what I really can’t forgive you for, I’d rather lie “ stark dead out there ” in Flanders Than tell the world how Wall Street won the war.