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Daddy’s Lost the Job He Had · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Daddy's lost the job he had. Daddy's lost the job
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  Speaker 1: he had a drivin' on the line, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: took to carryin an advertising sign. All that he's a
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  Speaker 1: makin' now is fifty cents a day, walkin' up and
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  Speaker 1: down and givin' little bills away Daddy, he tells Mammy.
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  Speaker 1: And it won't be long afore he finds another job
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  Speaker 1: at somethin' at'll pay him more. And bess an me's
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  Speaker 1: a hopin' at he'll get it soon, a cause it's
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  Speaker 1: putty nearly about the time to look for sante clause.
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  Speaker 1: I'm most eight years old, and Bess is littler an
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  Speaker 1: me an, Mammy's been a promisin that we could have
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  Speaker 1: a tree big is what the Dolens had last year
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  Speaker 1: on Christmas. And there's seven little Dolens and there's only
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  Speaker 1: two of us. But Mammy now is worried about the
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  Speaker 1: rent a coming on, and we don't drink no more coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and the bag of flowers gone, and the coal AT's
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  Speaker 1: in the closets a gettin down so fast we sifts
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  Speaker 1: the cinders over twice to try and make it last,
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  Speaker 1: So it don't much look as if a tree's a
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  Speaker 1: goin to be had. And we've stopped to asking Mammy
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  Speaker 1: because it only makes her mad. And we both have
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  Speaker 1: made it up to stop a plague in Daddy too
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  Speaker 1: for senses to buy candy with, just like we used
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  Speaker 1: to do. But we keep a hoping to ourselves it
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  Speaker 1: won't be all as so, and a praying and a praying,
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  Speaker 1: though we don't let Mammy know. If there's a job
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  Speaker 1: to spare at, daddy'll get it right away. Somethin at'll
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  Speaker 1: bring him more and fifty cents a day