Go On With Your Knittin

Go On With Your Knittin'

(Unknown Irish Poet)

When the folks next to you act like those in the zoo

A grumblin', growlin' and spittin'

It's a pretty good plan

To be as calm as you can

And do something useful?like knittin'.

When a gossipin' Susan with poison barbed tongue

Comes into the room where you're sittin'

And starts to defame

Some neighbor's good name

Count your stitches out loud and keep knittin'.

When there's been a slight misunderstandin' at the church

And others hint broadly of quittin'

Why the very best thing

You can do is to sing

And stay at your post and keep knittin'.

When Satan moves in with his cohorts of sin

Say, "You'll never find me submitin'.

You irk me I find

So get thee behind

And please don't disturb me?I'M KNITTIN!"

In the middle of problems, the big and the small

It's always proper and fittin'

To trust and to pray

'Til the Lord shows the way

An' go right on ahead with your knittin'.