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Title: Songs for Parents

Author: John Farrar

Posting Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #1664]
Release Date: March, 1999

Language: English

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Produced by Stewart A. Levin, and Curtis Farrar

SONGS FOR PARENTS

By John Farrar

Dedication

Here's a rhyme for Barbara,
Laughing white and pink,
Here's a rhyme for smiling Ted,
And one for Wink.

Now Dick's not much at reading rhymes,
He'd rather sit and fish.
Well here's a couple of verses, Dick,
Read them if you wish!

Contents

Dedication

SONGS OF DESIRE

Summer Explorer
Spring Wish
Ambition
Dreams
Water-Lily
Humor
Independence

SONGS FOR OUT OF DOORS

A Comparison
Speculation
Parade
Flower Preferences
Parental Advice
Song for a Child Watching Clouds
Problem
Garden Musings
My Garden
Tracks
Chanticleer
Rainbow
Windmill
Cat-Fish
Visiting
Castles
Parenthood

SONGS OF CIRCUMSTANCE

Moral Song
Serious Omission
Choice
Natural Fireworks
Conspiracy
Cuckoo Clock
The Sentinel
Royalty
Crackers
The Drum
Theatricals
Sally

SONGS FOR A CHRISTMAS TREE

Bundles
The Candy Santa Claus
The Tinsel Star
The Ambitious Mouse
Prayer

SONGS OF DESIRE

Summer Explorer

I'd like to be a gypsy
With gold rings in my ears,
Along the road to sit and sing,
And not do another thing
For years and years;

A road to dream upon by day,
A fire for dreams at night,
Free to wander far away,
Free to shout and free to play,
Quite impolite.

I'd pitch my tent beside a wall,
All apple trees within,
And if the apples didn't fall,
I wouldn't hesitate at all.
I'd climb--and sin!

But if the weather wasn't fine,
If all the worl