If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill

Be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub by the side of the rill

Be a bush if you can't be a tree

if you can't be a bush, be a bil of the grass

and same highway happier make

if you can't be a muskie then just be a bass

But the liveliest bass in the lakel

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew

There's something for all of us here

There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do

And the task you must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then be a trail,

If you can't be the sun be a star;

It is'nt by size that you win or you fail---

Be the best of whatever you are