Scars away
Johnclarestokes
The twentieth was your birthday
Willie Mae
You would of been a hundred and seven
Willie Mae
But you only got sixty-six
Sadly
You held the little scalded boy
Willie Mae
Pulled that cord on the stove
Willie Mae
Full of boiling water he did
Sadly
Wrapped him in that gauze
Willie Mae
Made them scars never go away
Willie Mae
Made that little boy shy
Willie Mae
Doctor said he wouldn’t use that arm
Sadly
What did Doctor Head know?
Willie Mae
The little boy became an artist
They say
Used the scalded left
Willie Mae
Doc Head drowned in Lake Ellen
Sadly
Inner tube fishing
They say
The little boys now sixty seven
Willie Mae
One more year than you lived
Willie Mae
It seems just like yesterday
Willie Mae
He thanks you for keeping him
Gladly
He thinks of Sopchoppy days
Willie Mae
And those scars just fade away
Willie Mae Porter
20Aug1915
17Sept1981
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