Remember

I remember the times at the brook

The fish that we took, my wet foot

The shore side fires, made when our folks didn’t look

Picking worms and setting the hook

Smoking cigarettes that my cousins took

We learned from the lands boy, we didn’t use books

My big cousin John taught me to always share my catch

With the Elderly and to take off my hat

When I walked in to deliver their caught snack

Or get a slap up-side the head, yeah…a good smack!

Cause the old folks don’t tolerate that

And that also went for the rabbits we trapped

The eels we speared and the moose and deer we tracked

Yeah…I remember all of that

 

Remember the time, we walked

Every day

Remember the time

Mala-Boy

Remember the time, we walked

With my Family

Remember the time

Every day, I remember

 

And I remember the times down at the beach, with my older cousins

We’d take our Uncle’s boats, a full dozen of us

Young brats, poling out on low tide on the water flats!

My cousin Andy, pants to his ankles

Waving his wang at the traffic passing!

We laughed and pulled pranks,

To our Grandparents we gave thanks

For building a Family of bad-ass tanks

We owned the world!

Free to roam the trees, mountains, streams and waterlines!

Even when times were tough, things felt just fine

We always had a place to eat

Ma’s, Grandma’s, Aunt Peg’s, Aunt Mary’s or Aunt Irene’s

We were so damn spoiled with love

Blessed with those Mothers from Gesgapegiag

 

Remember the time, we walked

Every day

Remember the time

Mala-Boy

Remember the time, we walked

With my Family

Remember the time

Every day, I remember

 

Hey, remember Irene’s Canteen?

The arcade and soft ice-cream

Pacman and Centipede?

Cheese burgers, French fries and it was all free…it seemed!

I’ll never be able to pay back my Aunts and Uncles

For everything they’ve ever done for me

For everything that they’ve taught me

The times they would watch over me

The times they would take care of me

And I know that it wasn’t just for me!

Every damn one of us, you took us in with no fuss

Even though we did bad stuff

Even though we liked to cuss

Even though some of us were constantly in handcuffs

I remember the times that defined us

This one’s for my Family, Mst No’kmaq

To each one of us

Gesalule

 

Remember the time, we walked

Every day

Remember the time

Mala-Boy

Remember the time, we walked

With my Family

Remember the time

Every day, I remember