It’s Not Dark Yet; duets.me.bob.recording146Hello to all of my readers.  As some of you know, I’ve been working on a book for  a long time, but , finally the time has come when I have finished the prep work and am sending it to the publisher.  Before he starts his own lengthly process, I want to print here an excerpt from the book.  I hope you enjoy the story, but please note, the book is a combination of stories, and poetry. All the stories and poetry are based on real life events, and all are copy right and may not be used without written permission.

The reason for the printing of this story is explained in the book.

What the Blind Man Saw

One bright day in the middle of the night

Two dead boys got up to fight

Back to back they faced each other

Drew their swords and shot each other

A deaf policeman heard the noise

He came and killed those two dead boys

One bright day in the middle of the night

As I was walkin’ up the stair

I saw a man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

Oh how I wish he’d go away

Jaybird sittin’ on a hickory limb

He winked at me and I winked at him

His eyes were red and his teeth were green

Sat there pickin’ on a tambourine

One bright day in the middle of the night

A monkey and a flea and three blind mice

Sat on a curbstone shootin’ dice

The monkey did a flip and fell on the flea

The flea said, “Whoops, there’s a monkey on me”

A Twinkie and a Tastykake knockin’ at the door

They just come from the mini-mart store

The lady went upstairs to get her gun

Should-a seen the Twinkie and the Tastykake run

One bright day in the middle of the night

As I was walkin’ down the street

Who do ya think I chanced to meet?

It was Godzilla and old King Kong

Stompin’ on buildings and singin’ a song

Red and blue and delicate green

The King can’t catch it ‘n’ neither can the Queen

Bring it in the house through the ‘lectric socket

Catch a rainbow and put it in your pocket

One bright day in the middle of the night

If you don’t believe these lies are true

Ask the blind man; He saw it too.

Folklore – no known author – many different versions found

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