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A Christmas Memory · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: A Christmas memory. Pa, he bringed me here to stay
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  Speaker 1: till my ma she's well, and then he's go hitch
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  Speaker 1: up Christmas Day and come take me back again where
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  Speaker 1: my ma's at. Won't I be tickled? When he comes
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  Speaker 1: for me. My Ma and my Auntie they as each
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  Speaker 1: of her sisters. Pa Auntie telled me the other day
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  Speaker 1: he comes here and married Ma. Auntie said, nan, go
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  Speaker 1: run play. I must work now. And I saw when
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  Speaker 1: she turned her face away she is crying. And then
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  Speaker 1: I tend like I run play and cry. This here
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  Speaker 1: house a Auntie's ware. They is borned my ma and
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  Speaker 1: her and her ma as my ma's ma, and her
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  Speaker 1: pa as my ma's pa. Ain't that funny? And they're dead?
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  Speaker 1: And this hears the old homestead, and my Auntie said
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  Speaker 1: and cried, it's mine too. If my Ma died, don't
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  Speaker 1: know what she mean, cause my Ma she's never going
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  Speaker 1: to die. When Pa bringed me here, tas night way
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  Speaker 1: dark night, and Auntie spread me a piece and light
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  Speaker 1: the light and say I must go to bed. I
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  Speaker 1: cry not to, But PA said, be good boy now
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  Speaker 1: like you telled mommy at, you're going to be And
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  Speaker 1: when he is kissing me my good night, his cheeks
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  Speaker 1: all wet and taste salty, And he held white close
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  Speaker 1: to me and rocked some and langed like till Auntie
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  Speaker 1: come get me while he's rocking. Yet Auntie hept me
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  Speaker 1: till I be pertinent ized strip Pudnan, hug me in
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  Speaker 1: both arms, and lift me way up in her high bed,
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  Speaker 1: and pray with me about my Ma and Paw and
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  Speaker 1: old Sannie Claus and Sleigh and Reindeers and little drum
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  Speaker 1: Yes and picture books, tom Thumb and three bears and
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  Speaker 1: old fee faw Yes and Tweedledee and dumb and white
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  Speaker 1: Knight and squidgecum and most things you ever saw. And
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  Speaker 1: when Auntie kissed me, she is all crying over me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want Sannie Claus ner things any kind he ever brings,
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  Speaker 1: don't want Auntie, don't want Paw. I only want my
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  Speaker 1: Ma