MY CITY is the place where my home is found,

Where my business is situated and where my vote is cast.

It is where my children are educated, where my neighbors dwell,

And where my life is chiefly lived. It is the home spot for me.

MY CITY has the right to my civic loyalty.

It supports me and I should support it.

MY CITY wants my citizenship, not my partisanship;

My friendliness, not my dissention; my sympathy not my criticism;

My intelligence, not my disinterest.

MY CITY supplies me with protection, trade, friends, education,

schools, churches, and the right to free moral citizenship.

It has some things that are better than others.

The best things I should seek to make better;

the worst things I could help to suppress.

Take it all-in-all – it is MY CITY –

and it is entitled to the best there is in me.