If you can't be the pine at the top of the hill

Be a shrub in the valley below.

The best little scrub in the valley below

Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass

And some highway happier make

If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass

But be the liveiest bass in the Lake!

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 lesser to do

And the task we must do is the near

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

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

It isn't by size that you win or you fail

Be the best of whatever you are