A song about when she was a kid. I love the line
Got 50 cents for nothin', and nothin's what I'd do
This was the first Cheryl Wheeler song I heard, on the Ben & Jerry's album. I really identified with this song, especially the 50 cents, which is what my weekly allowance was. 
- Half A Book
- Words And Music By:
- Cheryl Wheeler
- When I was just a baby on my family's knee
- My papa used to read me half a book a week.
- Got fifty cents for nothin', and nothin's what I'd do.
- I'd talk and sing to no one
- And everything was true.
- (Chorus)
- So mama won't you hold me a little closer,
- Papa won't you show me a little bit more.
- I was just a baby, now I'm gettin' older
- What was all the rush to growin' up for?
- When me and my best friend went catching frog and snakes,
- We'd find them in the streams, and put them in the lakes.
- But oh how time can change you
- It isn't hard to see,
- Those things I used to run to
- Now they come at me
- (Repeat Chorus)
- So I wake up every morning later than I should,
- Feed the cat and wonder if I'm bad or good.
- Drive to where I'm working,
- I sing and take my pay,
- Sometimes I'm so happy
- Sometimes I just say -
- (Repeat Chorus)
- 7/19/81
- (P) May 27, 2003
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
- ACF Music Group
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