Show THE SEWING WOMAN Baltimore Sun The sewing woman used to come to our house to stay Sometimes a week sometimes a month and sometimes just a i day da daThen Then all we heard was fashion talk of pleats and seams and frills Crills And gossip of at the little town that slept between the hills The sewing woman used to know a lot lotof lotof of ot things ma Ina said sald The marriages that were to come the things they wore when wed And when the sewing woman came we had just lots to eat t tAnd And and marmalade and puddings rich and sweet They The never nEwer minded us at all nor nor cared how much we played We I used to run off every day da and never feel eel afraid For folks were so wrapped up In clothes and styles and modes In time They never heard our romping feet nor childhoods The sewing woman stayed all night and evenings they the would sit And talk about the towns affairs and laugh and Joke a bit And then drift into clothes again as if it polonaise Was as all there was to talk about in sewing woman days The sewing woman Oman used to be a widow widow who had tried To make her living by b herself since her dear husband died And mother told us to be kind and gentle as we could And let the sewing woman see how nice we were when good We did the best beet that children can when sewing women come But in the meadows where we romped we made matIe up for or it some And when they gave us pumpkin pie pic and and antI tea We could not help but manifest at least our childhood glee The Tue sewing woman comes conies no more as asIn asIn asIn In that elder eider day da Perhaps she helps to keep herself herselt In some Borne less lass toilsome way And so we never know who weds or what folks have done Or what the gossips have to say or how the scandals run 0 We Ve miss her ber very vei er much and oft iIi Iff ir quiet corners comer dream Of OC mother letting us ug run out to tp romp and shout and scream And how the dinners used to be like Sundays every day da And all the world was and andall andall andall all the land hand I nd was play pIa |