It takes courage to answer a call

It takes courage to give your all

It takes courage to risk your name

It takes courage to be true.

It takes courage to dare

What no other will share,

To be standing alone

One whom no one will own.

To be ready to stake

for another man's sake

It takes courage to be true

It takes courage to say

What you know will not pay

to give each one his share

Through there'll be less to spare

To be speaking no more

Than the neighbour next door,

It takes courage to be true.

It takes courage to leave

What good fortune can give,

And to go to a land

where the poor need a hand

To be spending one's days

In less leisurely ways

It takes courage to be true.