These stanzas are a collection of fragments... they all sound like the songs kids sing when they're playing games or jumping rope. I found that my sense of Kelsey was easier to pull together in sketches. I've been away from home so long. Every time I see her, it becomes more apparent that who she is exceeds the bounds of anything I could grasp in a couple of weeks. I suppose the song (it is a love song still) sounds like "Miss Susie had a Steamboat," and "See See, oh Playmate" because, for all the growing up she's done, I still haven't had time to fully reconcile the notion of my baby sister, Keekee dodo, with Kelsey Mason who's in love and getting married.
As always, the love song is as much from my heart (quirky as it is) to my sweet boy, as a gift. I hope it translates to Kelsey's heart.
(It doesn't have a title quite yet.)
Would you promise to love me forever
If I set down my head on your knee?
If I took you for bad and for better
Would you promise to take -
Care of me?
Tie a ribbon in my hairHey hey, little sister
And kiss my face
And lets get married
Hold my hand
And butter my bread
And give me your knee to rest my head on
Where ya gone, where ya gone?
Mama's prayin' in the kitchen
For goin' on how long?
Hey hey, little sister
Put your ear to the ground
There's a hummin in the belly of the earth
Gonna turn around
I want to be so gentle
You could find yourself in me a little
And strong enough to hold somebody
I want to be a woman
Would you promise to love me whatever
It turns out I turn out to be?
Cuz I promise to love you forever
If you promise to take care of me.
Tie a ribbon in my hair
And kiss my face
And lets get married
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