This is a story told to me by Miss Rachel Mullan from Covington, LA. It is an old folk tale told to her by her mom many years ago................
Little orphan Annie has come to our house to stay
and wash the cups an saucers up and brush the crumbs away
and shoo the chickens off the porch and dust the hearth and sweep
and make the fire and bake the bread and earn her board and keep
and all of us other children when the supper things is done
We sits around the kitchen fire and has the mostest fun.
Alistening to the witch tales that Annie tells about
and the goblins will get ya' if you don't watch out!!
And once there was a little girl who would always laugh and grin
and make fun of everyone even her own blood and kin
and once when there was compnay and the old folks were there
she mock'em and she shocked'em an she said she didn't care
but just as she kicked her heel to turn and run and hide
there was two great big black things astanding by her side
and they snatched her through the ceiling before she knew what she's about
and the goblins will get ya' if you don't watch out!
And once there was a little boy who wouldn't say his prayers
and when he went to bed at night way way upstairs
his mama heard him holler an his daddy heard him ball
but when they pulled the covers down he wasn't there at all
and they seeked'em in the rafter room and chimney flew and press
an seek'em in the cubby hole and everywhere's I guess
but all they ever found was just his pants around about
an the goblins will get ya' if you don't watch out!
So little orphan Annie says when the blaze is blue and the lamp wick sputters
and the wind goes whoooooo and you hear the crickets crick
and the moon is gray and all the lightening bugs and dew is all squenched away
You better mind your parents and your teachers fine
and dear and cherish those that love you and dry the orphans tear
an help the poor and needy ones that clusters all about
or else...........the GOBLINS will get you if you DON'T WATCH OUT!!!!!
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