They move our youth away from God,

From Christian paths our fathers trod;

From honor, honesty, and right

To deeds that curse, corrupt, and blight

From beautiful, uplifting truth,

To falsehood hurtful to our youth;

From morals fine and grand and clean

To passions low and base and mean.

They move our youth to sin and crime,

From sacred things and things sublime,

They move to nudity in dress

And take much virtue girls possess;

They move from modesty in style

And lead to evil all the while;

From traits we all delight to trust,

To lewdness and destructive lust.

They move our youth to rob and steal,

To lie and cheat and falsely deal;

To think it matters little how

They stoop to wring and yield and bow.

To get a living out of life

Or whom they court and choose for wife;

That if they want to separate

They'll find some other for a mate.

The movies move - hear this, oh, please -

They move the church from off her knees,

And rob her of the grace to win

Lost souls from wreck and ruin and sin;

They move the money from the poor

And send the beggar to your door;

They move and move and surely get

The cash that ought to pay some debt.

They move the youth to pleasures wild,

And start to ruin many a child;

They move from children clothes and bread

And send them hungry off to bed;

Who named the movies named them well

For fast they move our youth to hell.