Mum's Rhymes

MY DADDY'S A PICTURE ON THE WALLSome boy's have their daddy's.Fine and straight and tall,I want a dad to love meAnd frolic with my ball.I want a dad to tease meAnd take me on his knee,But it's nothing but a pictureOf a Daddy that I see.Sometimes I get a letterFrom far across the sea,They say it is a messageThat is come from Dad to me,They read the words out to meAnd I surely love them all,But I gaze upon the pictureOf my Dad upon the wall.Mama sees that pictureAnd a tear is in her eye,She sadly turns away, and thenI hear a gentle sigh,There's lots of other picturesBut I feel that isn't all,There's something very sacred 'boutThat Daddy on the Wall.refrainWhen I say God Bless DaddyBut I don't know him at all'Cos then I kiss goodnightThe picture hanging on the wall.(Hal was born just before Harold went away to war and never knew his dad 'til hewas almost four years old.)Eva M. R. SalwayMum's Poems pg 49