[OCTOBER 12] [ORIGINAL] CLAY PIPE SHORT-SONG.

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Title: Clay Pipe Short-Song.
Day/Theme: October 12, 'light to your lips like daffodils'
Series: Original (with a nod to 'Streets of Laredo')
Rating: G.

Put the light to your lips, my sweet darling, my daughter

Tap the pipe on the fender and tamp down the fire.

Hold out your sweet hands now, my darling, my daughter

And I’ll fill them with sweeties, with hemp oil, with tar.

Let down your long red hair, my darling, my daughter,

And take all the sweet smoke in, I know it’s been long

Since I left you my darling, my sweet one, my daughter,

Since I left you and planted your heart with a song.

With the sound of long roadways, of ice-sparkled forests

With the bitter retort of a forester’s gun.

With short grass from the hill forts, a barrow a bequest,

A woman who loves you although she’s done wrong.