What Will I Be
What will I be when I grow up?
Will I be at the bottom or at the top?
Will I make lots of money or will I care?
Should I tell you at all, and do I dare?
What I learn in school will help me to know,
what direction it is that I should go.
Will I go to college and be a lawyer?
Or will I be like that guy Tom Sawyer?
Will I go on adventures and have lots of fun?
Or just lay around all day in the sun.
Will I be a doctor or a business man,
whatever I'll be, I'll do all I can.
To make this world a better place
but I'll study harder just in case.
I make a difference in a really big way,
by knowledge I learn from day to day.
I know that whatever I'm going to be,
is thanks to this country, because we're free.
By Vera Leonczyk
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