Thursday, June 03, 2010

Go to Father

An obscure old poem that I stumbled upon:

"Go to Father!" she said
When I asked her to wed,
And she knew that I knew
That her father was dead,
And she knew that I knew
What a life he had led,
So she knew that I knew
What she meant when she said,
"Go to Father!"

4 comments:

Ourbelovednation said...

This poem may never had surfaced again without your blog and is still little known

Brainnake said...

I learnt it from Mam60+years ago and, curiously, just looked for it to check the correct wording.
As I learnt it - it was "he" NOT "I" and "she knew that he knew the bad life he had led."

Sada Swirl said...

What is this from?!?! I found this in a letter from my great grandparents.....trying to understand why they sent it to me years ago..........

Sondra K. Prine said...

This poem was printed in one of our area newspapers years ago when I was a kid. I'm 81 now. But there's more to the poem/
T'was a long time ago, many years intervenes,
Since I courted a lass who was yet in her teens.
Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed,
when she knew that I knew her father was dead,
but she knew that I knew what a life he had led.
So she knew that I knew what she meant when she said, go to father.

We parted in anger my heart filled with woe,
For that was a place I cared not to go.
But the answer she gave I remember quite well,
When I asked her to wed and she said, go to father.

Sondra K. Prine