Buttermilk Monday

Buttermilk, Buttermilk,

Buttermilk Monday

Spin around,  spin around

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Thick as cream, Thick as cream,

Spin around my baby

Dress her up, dress her up

My snow-white Buttermilk Monday.

Lap in the light, Lap in the light,

Yellow, yellow in the window

Lap in the light, all is right

Dance my Buttermilk Monday.

Buttercup, Buttercup,

Buttercup love,

Butter love sweet in the valley.

Butter love, Butter love

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Spin my sweet

Sweet sweet sweet

Spin my sweet

In the morning

Love my milk

Love my cream

Love my Buttercup Monday.

Double Dutch door,

Double Dutch door

In the early sunshine.

Double Dutch door,

Butter love more

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Spread and pour

Spread and pour

Love my Butter in the morning

May and Spring, May will spring

Buttermilk, Springtime drinking

May will smile

Yellow while I

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Fresh and new, Friends you knew

Buttermilk, Buttermilk

Monday.

Fresh and new, Friends are true

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Green morning grass 

Blue morning sky

Songbirds and sunshine in the window

Shine fresh and green

Proud to be see

All on my Buttermilk Monday.

Baby crawl, baby small

Crawl to the Buttermilk warmshine

Baby small

Pure and churned 

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Cream white

Sun yellow

Buttercup pure

Waking sure

Such is my Buttermilk Monday.

Stretch and smile.

Eyes that shine, love that’s mine

All is my Buttermilk Monday.

Butter, Butter

Rich and fine

Butter, Butter

Smooth and mine

Spin dance laugh around

My Kitchen Buttermilk Monday.

Spin and spin

Sing and smile

Pour my Buttermilk all the while.

Love my Buttermilk Monday

Shines like day, Shines like day

Shines like sun in her smiling

Shines the day, lights my way

Love my Buttermilk Monday,

Saturday, Sunday

Tuesday, Monday

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Spin my cream

Milk white dream

Around my baby in the morning

Spin my cream, spin my cream

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Kitchen wooden floor, Kitchen wooden floor

Buttermilk churner and a baby.

Kitchen on the floor, baby thought she saw

Buttercup sing in the dew shine

Buttercup mine

Morning shine

Love my Buttermilk Monday.

Drink my milk, sip my sun

White as any morning.

Drink my milk, sip my cream

Love my Butterdew Monday.

Blue eye shine, Blue eye shine

Wake so pure in the morning.

Blue eyes shine, blue eyes mine 

Love my Buttermilk morning .

Churn and sing, churn and sing

Sing the songs of the milking

Churn and ring, churn and sing

Sing my Buttermilk Monday.

Hands and smiles, eyes and smiles

Bring on Buttercup morning

Love and life, life and sun

Such is my Buttercup Monday.

Published in Issue #1 of Grub Street, 1969