Life Story – Childhood Song – Grandma Anna

Written Monday, March 24, 2008

Tell the words of a song from your childhood.  What memories does it bring?

"Two little boys 
Had two little toys, 
Each had a wooden horse; 
Gaily they played 
Each summer's day - 
Warriors both of course. 
One little chap 
Then had a mishap, 
Broke off his horse's head; 
Cried for his toy, 
Then cried for joy 
As his young playmate said:

"Did you think I would leave you crying 
When there's room on my horse for two? 
Climb up here, Jack. we'll soon be flying; 
I can go just as fast with two. 
When we grow up we'll both be soldiers, 
And our horses will not be toys; 
And I wonder if we'll remember 
When we were two little boys." 

Long years passed, 
War came so fast; 
Bravely they marched away. 
Cannons roared loud 
And in the mad crowd
Wounded and dying lay. 
Up went a shout - 
A horse dashes out, 
Out from the ranks so blue, 
Galloped away 
To where Joe lay 
And then came a voice he knew:

"Did you think I would leave you dying 
When there's room on my horse for two? 
Climb up here, Joe, we'll soon be flying 
Back to the ranks so blue. 
Do you know, Joe, I'm all a-tremble, 
Perhaps it's the battle's noise; 
But I think it's that I remember
When we were two little boys."