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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHOES AND STOCKINGS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY
First Line: There's a shop upon the avenue where old men clerk
Last Line: Chatter.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers
First Line: There's a shop upon the avenue where old men clerk
Last Line: Chatter.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers
There's a shop upon the avenue where old men clerk.
(Eighteen dollars, dollars...
Dollars, dollars, dollars...)
They make gold slippers, mostly openwork.
(Dollars, dollars, dollars...
Dollars, sales and dollars...)
My lady is wedding and her own papa
Must buy her footwear till he's an in-law.
She must have her slippers, so he cannot shirk.
Dollars, dollars, dollars,
Dollars!
There's a mansion by the river where bridge players meet.
(Chatter, chatter, chatter...
Chatter, no trump, chatter...)
They saw flesh stockings on my lady's feet.
(Chatter, two clubs, chatter...
Chatter, whose deal? chatter...)
"She wears her stockings so very sheer,
She might as well have none on, my dear,
These young people nowadays -- they can't be beat!"
Chatter, what's trumps? chatter...
Chatter.
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