Mary Monday
When I was five our family took a vacation to the Virgin Islands. I loved everything about the trip – from flying in a 22 seater plane from Puerto Rico to St. Croix, to swimming in the Caribbean Sea every day, to tasting tapioca pudding for the first time and to listening to the steel drum bands by the pool. One of my fav photos is of my dad holding my hand on the beach – he in his cool Raybans and me in my little girl bikini with ruffles on the bottom.
One night the band learned my name and played the calypso song Mary Ann. Every time I go to the beach I sing this song in my head.
By the way, the one thing I didn’t like about the trip was that I had left one of my favourite playthings behind – a small wheeled spaceship with a removable alien. How I had cried for weeks about my stupidity of not checking to make sure I had it packed up.
I searched the web for a version of Mary Ann and found this folksy one by Terry Gilkyson. Enjoy.
PLAY Mary Ann
OhCaptain Said,
May 3, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
What a cool story. I lost one of my stuffed animals at a hotel when I was a kid. I left it poolside and some big kids decided to play catch with it in the pool. It didn’t last long before bursting at the seams. Big kids suck.