Show FATTIER FATHER OF OURS We used to wonder Just why Father never neer had time to play Used to wonder why hed he'd rather Work each minute of the day We used to wonder why he never Loafed along the road rond and shirked Cant Can't recall a time when ever Father played while others worked Father didn't dress In fashion- fashion Sort of hated clothing new Style with him film was not a n passion lIe He had other things in ln view Boys are blind to much that's that's going On about em day by day And we have no way of knowing What became of fathers father's pay All we know was when we needed Shoes we got em on the spot Everything for which we pleaded Somehow father always got We wondered season after season Why he never took a rest And that we might be the reason Then we never guessed Father set a store of knowledge If hed he'd lived to have his way Hed He'd have sent us all to college And the bills been glad to pay That we know was his ambition ambition- Now and then he used to say Hed He'd have done his worldly mission On graduation day We saw his cheeks get paler Didn't understand just why We saw his body growing frailer Then at last we saw him die Rest had come his tasks were ended e was written on his brow Fathers Father's life was Big and Splendid And we understand it now Unknown |