Best Maters Poems

I say taters instead of potatoes
I say maters instead of tomatoes
My tongue is full of hillbilly idioms
I often say yeah when some would say yes
Sometimes I say “I reckon” when what I mean
Is I suppose this or that is best

I hear hearts instead of words...

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When I was just a toddler,
Just a small tike I was
My Grandma grew a garden,
I liked them maters because.

Pa-Pa put me in the stroller,
Off  to the garden we’d go.
He’d pick me some, and I would eat
Them little Tommy toes.

Grandma would see when we got...

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DIDN'T TELL YOU TO PICK DOS MATERS
AND DIG DOS TATERS
YOU OUT DARE DIGGING THE MATERS
AND PICKIN UP TATERS OFF THE GROUND
STOP YOU FLOOKIN DAFFY DOOTIN
AND PICK DOS MATERS OUT THE PATCH
DOLL-GIFT GOOFIN
WHEN YOU SHOULD BE GROUPIN GREEN MATERS
RED MATERS
GREEN MATER
RED MATERS
GREEN MATERS
YOU TRYIN TO DIG...

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