Hanes Her Way

Sunday School Would Never Be,
The Same For Us Again.
"Mrs. Debbie" Got Some Pregnancy?
Then "ROSIE HANES" Moved In.

Our Teacher Was All Sweet And Soft,
And Always Gave Us Hugs!
Now Class Starts After "ROSIE" Coughed,
( We Think She Swallows Bugs! )

Her Big Fat Purse Is Full Of Snacks,
Like Candy Bars And Nuts.
She Said "In Case She Gets Attacks",
Of Something In Her Guts?

My Mom Says "ROSIE HANES" Is Nice,
One Husband Died Of Stroke?
And Something About Widowed Twice?
( We Think They Probably Choked! )

Each Sunday School Starts Out The Same,
We Bow Our Heads To Pray.
Then Class Begins With Some Dumb Game,
She Calls It . . . "Hanes Her Way".

She Seems To Know The LORD Real Well,
( Probably There When HE Was Born )
She Tells Us Stories About Hell,
While Munching On Pop-Corn.

She Told Us Other Stories Too,
Like Jonah And The Whale.
We Wondered What That Fish Would Do,
If He'd Seen "ROSIE'S Tail"?

When We Left Church, My Mom Was Mad!
She Sat Me In A Chair.
I Didn't Think I'd Been That Bad?
But Mama Didn't Care.

She Said That I Would Hear Her Out,
Before I Left That Seat.
What "ROSIE HANES" Was All About,
That's IF ?  I Chose To Eat.

Mom Told Me "ROSIE'S" Life Was Filled,
With Sad Stuff All The Time.
Her Second Husband, Shot And Killed,
By A Bad Man Doing Crime.

Then "ROSIE" Had To Find Some Work,
She Had Four Kids To Feed.
Mom Said Her Boss Was Just A Jerk,
His Name Was Mr. Mead.

She Cleaned His House And Washed His Clothes,
For Six Days Every Week.
He Always Liked To Scream At "ROSE",
And Call Her Names, Like "Freak".

But Mom Said "ROSE" Just Said A Prayer,
And Went Back Everyday.
She Never Left His Cupboards Bare,
And That Was "Hanes Her Way"!

Mom Told Me Lots Of Awful Stuff,
That "ROSIE HANES" Lived Through.
I'm Only Eight, But She Was Tough!
I Guess I Never Knew?

Mom Finally Said That She Was Done,
And Hoped I Understood?
That I Should Re-Think Poking Fun,
At People That Are Good.

( Well . . . )

I Told My Friends, What Mom Told Me,
We All Got Tummy Pains.
We Hadn't Lost Mrs. Debbie,
We Just Gained, "ROSIE HANES"

The Next Week Class Was Not The Same,
We Listened To The Facts.
And Didn't Even Mind Her Game,
She Even Shared Her Snacks!

We're Only Kids, And Kind Of Dense,
But Changed Our Attitude.
Miss "ROSIE" Sure Was ~No Nonsense,
We're Sorry We Were Rude.

Mrs. Debbie's Back Now On Sunday,
But Much To Our Surprise ~
We Kind Of Miss Our "Hanes Her Way",
Cause She Was Just Our Size!

        

Jody Harmon

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