I grew up in the beautiful countryside
and worked on a local family farm
one day a sweet dear little old lady
gave me a small old lucky charm.

It wasn't a four leaved clover
nor was it an old horse shoe
in fact I don't think it was lucky at all
and I'd like to share all this with you.

Carry it with you always" she said
and be careful what ever you do
I nodded to her very politely
and whispered "I thank you "

She said " she'd had it for years"
and it would bring me so much luck
the first time I put it in my pocket
I slipped on a big pile of cow muck!

So I took it out of my pocket
and then put it around my neck
and as I was on the way to visit you
I fell into the smelly dirty beck.

I pulled myself out the dirty water
and trudged back to the local farm
then just as I rounded the corner
I fell over the dog and almost broke my arm.

Laying there on the hard cold floor
my arm throbbed with so much pain
I said to myself "can things get any worse "?
Yes! It did because it started to rain!

I managed to get myself of the floor
and make it back inside the farm
and there I found that sweet dear old lady
who asked me "How's the lucky charm"?

I quickly told her everything that happened
the cow muck to almost breaking my arm
She smiled, laughed and then said to me
" I think I'll keep that lucky charm "

(from the works of Jason Carr )

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