Chores (for Father’s Day)

Chores
  (for Father’s Day)

Like picking elderberries and 
  Mushing juice for summer wine,
Dad makes sure I’ve done my chores,
  And that they’re done on time


Then there’s taking out the garbage,
  Mowing grass or raking leaves,
Sundays it’s all laundry,
  Fold diagonally the sleeves


You might think it not at all fair
 Dad himself has got no chores,
Yet his all consuming task is
  Telling me he’s keeping score,
    ‘cause 

 That’s how I know he loves me,
  And is his never ending chore