Ain't No Hopscotch
For trascedenza, child!Lureen
Ain't No Hopscotch
I don't like hopscotch. Lonnye makes me play every day at recess, and I told my daddy. He said hopscotch was good for a gal to play, but I don't see it, I guess. The boys play football, and lordy knows I don't want to play that neither. Mama says I ought to play what I want. So today I'm bringing jax in to school. Because today is my birthday and Lonnye ain't goin' a make me play hopscotch not one more time.
You wanna know what I want for my birthday? I asked my mama and daddy for a train record. Daddy said he was going to get me a new bridle for Pinky, one of them red leather ones with the name Pinky written in it. I like that too. I hope I can get both.
But you wanna know why I like the train records? I have me one right now, but I have heard it a million times, and I want a new one. Sometimes at night while daddy's readin' the paper or workin', and Mama's cleanin', I go to my room all alone and put on my train record and then I can imagine I'm goin' somewhere, somewhere that's not Childress no more. It's like a place I make myself, and in it Pinky has all sorts of pretty leather stuff, and most of all there ain't no hopscotch.
Ain't No Hopscotch
I don't like hopscotch. Lonnye makes me play every day at recess, and I told my daddy. He said hopscotch was good for a gal to play, but I don't see it, I guess. The boys play football, and lordy knows I don't want to play that neither. Mama says I ought to play what I want. So today I'm bringing jax in to school. Because today is my birthday and Lonnye ain't goin' a make me play hopscotch not one more time.
You wanna know what I want for my birthday? I asked my mama and daddy for a train record. Daddy said he was going to get me a new bridle for Pinky, one of them red leather ones with the name Pinky written in it. I like that too. I hope I can get both.
But you wanna know why I like the train records? I have me one right now, but I have heard it a million times, and I want a new one. Sometimes at night while daddy's readin' the paper or workin', and Mama's cleanin', I go to my room all alone and put on my train record and then I can imagine I'm goin' somewhere, somewhere that's not Childress no more. It's like a place I make myself, and in it Pinky has all sorts of pretty leather stuff, and most of all there ain't no hopscotch.