My skin was white
Yours
was black.
My step was spry
Yours was slack.
Hand in hand
Up the path.
I climbed fences
'You done lost your senses? '
I ran to the stream
Just to hear you scream
And then '
Hand in hand
Up the path.
A child and a man
In adventure land.
You sang a song
I hummed along.
Coin in hand
For the candy man
Hand in hand
Up the
path.
Frank Segar [Ce-gar] was
an old black man that lived on my grandfather's
farm in a log cabin. He helped
on the farm. Grandmother would
let me walk through the woods to Mr. Fran Bond's
Country store with 'Old Frank'. There
was a path where an old roadbed had been and we had to cross
over barbed wire fences through a pasture. 'You hold her hand
now ', Grandmother would always yell
to Frank. He was very old and
carried his money in a leather pouch that pulled with a string.
I 'd get five pieces of candy
for a penny. They had Kit 's in banana, strawberry and chocolate.
Frank would buy me a big bag
full for a nickel. I was rich!
Charlotte Collins Bond
