BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP (Renewed) by Su'eddie Vershima Agema

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep 2 – WW Denslow – Project Gutenberg etext 18546 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Baa baa black sheep
Have you any wool
Yes Sir, Yes Sir
Three bags full
One for the Master
One for the dame
One for the little boy who lives down the lane

Bla bla black sheep
They think you a fool
To carry three bags full
To them who in comfort sleep

You’re all shorn
And I, your sibling, well worn
Love your neighbour as yourself
Not nail yourself to the shelf…

Black sheep
Sorrows, pain and poverty fill your eye
I dare not ask why
Else I know I would some of it keep

So, sow your wool
And you would a full
Abundance reap
Slave not and sell yourself not so cheap

Bla bla black sheep
If you have any wool
Yes Sir, Yes Sir,
Don’t be a fool
Give one to the needy
One for your being
Keep now the other one and quit being insane!!

Su’eddie Vershima Agema is the Vice Chairman, Benue Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).  He is the author of the poetry collection, Bring Our Casket Home: Tales One Shouldn’t tell often. ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ is produced here courtesy of Vershage Enterprises from the collection, SHRINE TALE: Second Collection.

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~ by su'eddie on February 20, 2013.