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CHARLIE LUCAS, by                    
First Line: Charlie lucas didnt know
Last Line: "debbul git yuh!"


Charlie Lucas didn't know
When his feet were moving slow --
But his feet were unimportant;
He had music stepping lively
Through his head
When he said:
'Walk boy;
Debbul git yuh!"

Unseen harps and banjos, strumming,
Joined the ghostly voices, humming;
Yet prosaic, uninspiring,
Were the endlessly untiring
Words he mumbled
As he stumbled:
"Walk boy;
Debbul git yuh!"

Jungle rhythms timed his shuffling
Hands and feet, forever ruffling
Mounds of hay or piles of corn.
Afternoon or early morn --
Every word
Ever heard:
"Walk, boy;
Debbul git yuh!"





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