Wash-day Song

Sing a song of laundry

Lilting on the line

Like life’s little love-letters

Of cotton design

Sing a song of laundry

Sing until it hurts

Clothes-line filled with laughter of

Dresses, pants and shirts

Sing a song of laundry

Common tiralee

See those trousers dance a jig

To wind-melody

Sing a song of laundry

Echoing the joy

Mingled with the carefree spills

Of wee girl and boy

Sing a song of laundry

Happy as can be

For where there is laundry, oh

There is family

So, sing a song of laundry

Rainbow-tinted tune

Lolling in the sunshine of

A wash-day afternoon

© Janet Martin

The size of the pieces might change as years go by, but the process is the same...

Gather-wash-dry

-fold-put away,

This is the tune

of washing day! 

Moms, aren't you glad, glad, glad

for the people in your life that keep laundry hampers replenished? ;-)