Just a shoe

please sir may I have a shoe

I know I shouldn't ask 

for bare foot I have rough and tumbled 

through the dirt tracks of my past

you may feel one shoe only 

is such a strange request

that one seems so odd at least

but I will not need any less

I never had a pair of shoes

I got along quite well

but as time and life rolled on 

my needs began to tell

more important were the other things

a head above water so to speak 

for I was told that what I sow 

will repay in what I reap

but nature in her wisdom

decided to play another trick

thats why you see in my hand 

a borrowed wooden stick

so please could you spare a shoe 

I know I shouldn't ask

it need not be a new one 

even an old off cast

for I know it's going to help 

my one foot in a shoe

my other lost forgotten 

that's why I've come to you

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