<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546134" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Backwater Baby</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down past Possum Road<br>Up towards the crumbling town<br>You'll find a house with a little lady<br>Down by the backwater<br>Of the trickling little stream<br>There is a house made of logs<br>And mud, with one little window<br>And a smoking chimney<br>Puffing tiny gray clouds into the bright blue sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you step inside the ramshackle house<br>You'll hear the incessant crying<br>Of the backwater baby<br>Dealing with her own little troubles<br>By the trickling little stream<br>In the middle of nowhere, USA<br>As momma tries her hardest to survive<br>And daddy long gone, looking for a better life<br>Leaving the baby to cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Momma does what she can to live<br>Washing clothes for the rich people down the street<br>Keeping little baby going as best as she can<br>And singing on the weekends in the bar downtown<br>Leaving baby alone and crying<br>In her broken crib<br>Back at the stream down past Possum Road<br>In the tiny log house with the smoking chimney<br>Life goes on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Megan+Ayscue">Megan Ayscue</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546134" data-title="Backwater Baby de Megan Ayscue" data-description="Down past Possum Road Up towards the crumbling town You'll find a house with a little lady Down by the backwater Of the trickling little stream There is a house made of logs And mud, with one little window And a smoking chimney Puffing tiny gray c..."></div> </div> </div>

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