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A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS by ANONYMOUS

First Line: WHEN MOTHER SITS BESIDE MY BED
Last Line: SHE KNOWS IT ALL; YOU CAN'T FOOL HER
Subject(s): MOTHERS;
WHEN mother sits beside my bed
At night, and strokes and smooths my head,
And kisses me, I think, some way,
How naughty I have been all day;
Of how I waded in the brook,
And of the cookies that I took,
And how I smashed a window light
A-rassling--me and Bobby White--
And tore my pants, and told a lie;
It almost makes me want to cry
When mother pats and kisses me;
I'm just as sorry as can be,
But I don't tell her so--no, sir.
She knows it all; you can't fool her.



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