Dear Mrs Roosevelt

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    Dear Missis Roosevelt, don't hang your head and cry.
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    His mortal clay is laid away, but his good work fills the sky
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    this world was lucky to see him born

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    He's born in a money family on that Hudson's rocky shore,
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    outrun every kid a-growin' up 'round Hyde Park just for fun,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    He went away to grade school and wrote back to his folks,
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    he drew such funny pictures and always pulling a joke,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    He went on up towards Harvard, he read his books of law,
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    he loved his trees and horses, loved everything he saw,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    He got struck down by fever and it settled in his leg,
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    he loved the folks that wished him well as everybody did,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    He took his office on a crippled leg, he said to one and all:
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    "You money changin' racket boys have sure 'nuff got to fall!"
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    This world was lucky to see him born.

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    In Senate walls and Congress halls he used his gift of tongue,
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    to get you thieves and liars told and put you on the run,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    I voted for him for lots o' jobs, I'd vote his name again,
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    he tried to find an honest job for every idle man,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    He helped to build my union hall, he learned me how to talk,
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    I could see he was a cripple but he learned my soul to walk,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    You Nazis and you fascists tried to boss this world by hate,
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    he fought my war the union way and the hate gang all got beat,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    I sent him 'cross that ocean to Yalta and to Tehran,
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    he didn't like Churchill very much and told him man to man,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    He said he didn't like De Gaulle, nor no Chiang Kai Shek,
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    shook hands with Joseph Stalin, says: "There's a man I like!"
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    This world was lucky to see him born.

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    I was torpedoed on my merchant ship the day he took command,
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    he was hated by my captain, but loved by all ships hands,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.

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    I was a Gl in my army camp that day he passed away,
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    and over my shoulder talkin' I could hear some soldier say:
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    “This world was lucky to see him born".

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    I guess this world was lucky just to see him born,
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    I know this world was lucky just to see him born,
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    this world was lucky to see him born.