Claudelle
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Claudelle, we must go away and start a new life.
This fruitless sharecropping has just cost me my wife.
Believe me, in every way, I loved your mother.
Frustrated and annoyed, she left me...
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Categories:
sharecropping, first love, heartbreak, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Rum Gully Grits Mill
...Sunrise found the farmers waiting
at the grits mill by the stream.
With the sound of grinding corn,
neighbors worked as a team.
Sharecropping is just a memory...
No more tobacco to b...
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Categories:
sharecropping, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Day the Man Cried
...In the middle of the night
Awaken by a crackling sound
Parents jump hit the ground
Get out, get out shouted with might
Children scattered every way
Eight boys, three girls were saved that day
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Categories:
sharecropping, childhood, education, family, father,
Form: Rhyme