For Me and My Gal movie - Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You lyrics

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Words by Thomas Hoier, Music by Jimmie Morgan, 1915<br>

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Performed by Judy Garland in the film For Me and My Gal, 1942, but cut from the film<br>

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Last night, as I lay a sleeping,<br>

A wonderful dream came to me.<br>

I saw Uncle Sammy weeping<br>

For his children from over the sea;<br>

They had come to him, friendless and starving,<br>

When from tryrant's oppression they fled,<br>

But now they abuse and revile him,<br>

Till at last in just anger he said:<br>

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If you don't like your Uncle Sammy,<br>

Then go back to your home o'er the sea,<br>

To the land from where you came,<br>

Whatever be its name,<br>

But don't be ungrateful to me!<br>

If you don't like the stars in Old Glory,<br>

If you don't like the Red, White and Blue,<br>

Then don't act like the cur in the story,<br>

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you!<br>

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You recall the day you landed,<br>

How I welcomed you to my shore?<br>

When you came here empty handed,<br>

And allegiance forever you swore?<br>

I gathered you close to my bosom,<br>

Of food and of clothes you got both,<br>

So, when in trouble, I need you,<br>

You will have to remember your oath:<br>

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If you don't like your Uncle Sammy,<br>

Then go back to your home o'er the sea,<br>

To the land from where you came,<br>

Whatever be its name,<br>

But don't be ungrateful to me!<br>

If you don't like the stars in Old Glory,<br>

If you don't like the Red, White and Blue,<br>

Then don't act like the cur in the story,<br>

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you!<br>

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