Two Cheers Instead Of Three Lyrics - Irving Berlin

[Verse:] 

It's smart to be thrifty when times are so bad 

Let's be patriotic, but let's not go mad 

We must cheer the colors we prize 

So here's what I strongly advise 

[Refrain:] 

We'll just have two cheers instead of three 

For the land of the brave and the free 

Instead of three cheers, we'll just have two 

For the red and the white and the blue 

So when we cheer the stars and stripes here's what we'll do 

We'll cheer the red and cheer the white but not the blue 

And just have two cheers instead of three 

For the land of the brave and the free 

[Patter:] 

Why give them three cheers when two will more than do? 

If there must be cheers then let there just be two 

And the speeches that you make to Uncle Sam 

Cut 'em down to "Unaccustomed as I am..."