Bryan from American Love by Camden Joy

Did you hear the candidates saying that they are on your side? Do you want some Chief Executive telling you such lies? William Jennings Bryan was most truly on your side because he did like each of you does: you lose but don’t give up.

Lost a race in ninety-four then again in eighteen ninety-six, nineteen hundred, and in aught-eight.
Lost, but never licked.

They loved him in the south and west but northerners thought him a pest. He felt a gold standard was best. They said, ah give it a rest. He did not care for businessmen, disagreed with Charles Darwin. He spoke for the common man and so he has been forgotten.

Lost a race in ninety-four then again in eighteen ninety-six, nineteen hundred, and in aught-eight.
Lost, but never licked.

When William Jennings Bryan spoke, he brought the working classes hope. He championed the farming folk and laid the wealthy low. No dollar coin will feature him, though he ran and ran again. Speaking for the common man, he couldn’t ever win.

Lost a race in ninety-four, then again in eighteen ninety-six, nineteen hundred, and in aught-eight.
Lost, but never licked.

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