Short Hales Poems

Quiggie Snarls were maritime snails
Tasted butter in mouth of Hales
He ate a bucketful
With his grandson Gudrool
Then kicked the bucket off the rails...

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Spike Hales liked to drive fast
he sneered at the cars he passed.
Taking a curve at 90 per
he who was became a were
friends told him he wouldn't last....

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Sarah Josephena Hale wrote to Lincoln
not once or twice, but for seventeen years
asking him to come around to her way of think’n
and make Thanksgiving a holiday without fears

Sarah’s writing was not only for Uncle Sam
She is also known for her poem Mary had a little lamb
a woman of many talents, who is still known today
showing that persistence often receives a pay day...

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Y’all know her as Jill
I know her as Jillybean
Y’all familiar with the hill
But I know a different scene
She actually hales from Swan Hill
That’s close to Nantucket
I know her to have carried a will
Not the familiar bucket
So on the story goes 
But no tumbling or tumbling after
Just some good times
A lot memories and laughter
Can’t say for sure
I heard Jillybean got married
Well it wasn’t to me
Because I was harried and tarried
...

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