The Average Man

0:00 When it comes to a question of trusting

0:03 yourself to the risks of the road,

0:07 when the thing is the sharing of burdens,

0:10 the lifting, the heft of a load,

0:13 the hour of peril or trial,

0:15 in the hour you meet as you can,

0:18 you may safely depend on the wisdom and skill

0:22 of the average man.

0:25 Tis the average man and no other who does his

0:29 plain duty each day,

0:31 the small thing his wage is for doing on the

0:34 commonplace bit of the way.

0:37 Tis the average man, may God bless him,

0:40 who pilots us still in the van,

0:44 over land, over sea, as we travel,

0:47 just the plain, hearty, average man.

0:52 So on through the days of existence,

0:55 all mingling in shadow and shine,

0:58 we may count on the everyday hero,

1:01 whom happily the gods may divine,

1:05 who wears the sort grime of his calling,

1:08 and labors and earns as he can,

1:11 and stands at the last with the noblest,

1:15 the commonplace average man.