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The Way of the Yanks
Chapter 30
The Way of the Yanks was union,
2Before union meant a faction,
3And they kept on making movies,
4And trying hard to do it right.
5They fought a lot,
6And did things wrong,
7And left a million miles of footage on the floor.
8But they built on their genius for compromise,
9And settled their differences time after time,
10So that dreams could keep moving on out the door.
11Their pictures made money,
12And fattened their wallets,
13Till their rivals felt envy,
14And laughed at their zest.
15But the Yanks loved success,
16And gloried in winning,
17Sure of their talent,
18For fairy tale endings.
19They knew the hero gets the girl,
20And the bad guy always gets shot,
21And no sin is ever left unavenged,
22If the writer’s on top of the plot.
23That’s why they finally took on the challenge,
24Of showing the world the American Way,
25In a foreign film,
26Called world war one,
27And a sequel called world war too.
28But this time they ended with special effects,
29That almost devoured the screen,
30And frightened the audience half to death,
31Not to mention the studio team.
32For they started to wonder,
33And doubt, and fear,
34The rule they had taken for granted:
35That happy endings would always be there,
36If you did the work for what you wanted.
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