Seika
Wally
Wally's ashes might'a washed up on the beach today...
Last Saturday night, we swam out to the barge
The one that got stuck on a shoal two years ago in the big storm...
Waves were biggest I can remember
Could'a got killed if ya tried swimmin
Daddy told us to never go down to the beach if the weather was storm'n
But, stupid Wally did, so we followed
He just ran right down there, jumped in the water and went down a whole buncha times
We thought he was a goner
Nelly ran back up to the house scream'n at the top of her lungs
Daddy came down...
But, somehow Wally came back
Soakin wet and stinking like hel
l Daddy gave us all a whoopin and sent us to our room for the rest of the day..
'cept poor Wally, 'cause he got no dinner, either
Sometimes, I wonder where Wally is...
Daddy says he's gone to a better place
Mama says she's just glad Wally ain't lickin her dinner plates no more...
Me and Nelly used to give Wally all our yucky bits..and Mama would catch us and then tell Daddy and then...
Daddy would yell at us and tell us that we was bein' mean to the dog and that he was gonna come back and haunt us when he got dead...
We ain't heard no Wally ghost yet...
Nelly thought she heard him on Thursday night, but it was just Homer our cat...
Outside on the windowsill doin' cat stuff...
Daddy and I were home on the day Wally got dead...
Friday afternoon, nearly two weeks back
Me and Daddy was goin out in the pickup truck to get Mama and Nelly...
We thought Wally was in the back
When we got to the end of the driveway,
Daddy stopped 'cause he saw Mr. Jenkins comin, then we turned out into the road,
Wally came runnin down beside us and smacked right into the tire of Mr. Jenkin's 'ol box truck
He just fell down and didn't move...
I didn't see no blood...
Daddy made me stay in the truck while he and Mr. Jenkin's got out to see if Wally was o.k
They just stood there starin...
Finally Daddy picked Wally up and put him in the back of our truck...
We turned round and went back up the drive to the house...
Daddy told me to run inside and grab a blanket and told me to make sure that it wasn't one of Mama's good ones
He wrapped Wally up and left him beside the shed...
I didn't even cry... I don't know why 'cause I saw the whole thing
Daddy says it's 'cause I'm a big boy and that cryin is for girls
Later that night, me and Nelly cried a whole bunch in our room...
We could see the real big fire outside by the shed...
Daddy told us it was so the angels could see where
Wally was and they would come and take him to doggy heaven...
Next night, Saturday night, Daddy, me and Nelly swam out to the barge
Daddy had the big grey pail with some dirt and Wally's ashes inside
He said that the water would be a good place to bury Wally see'n that he liked it so much...
Daddy poured the dirt and Wally into the water and said a kinda' prayer...
Nelly was ball'n so much Daddy had to carry her when we swam back to shore...
That's why me and Nelly come down here everyday...
I don't know what Wally's goin look like when he comes back...
Daddy says he will look like a dog...
Nelly says, 'He's goin look like a skeleton'
But, I don't think so, 'cause he got all burned up
So I think he's just gonna look like dirt....