![]() ![]() ![]() Every day, Cinderella had to make ten sweet potato pies and ten pots of collard greens, which Crooked Foster Mother and the twins" gobbled. The years passed, and soon the girl did all "the cleaning, the sewing and the cooking. " So she did, and as soon as Cinderella was tall enough to reach a pot and hold a spoon she put her to work. And seein' as how you're as dirty as a cinder pile, I guess I'll call you Cinderella. ![]() And since she had two girls already ( a mean pair of twins called Hennie and Minnie) she grabbed the child up saying, " I sure don't need another mouth to feed, but what I could use is another hand in the kitchen. Crooked Foster Mother, who lived over on the other end of the swamp found her. Sorrow over the loss of her child and joy over the blessed relief she found in the music." Now, somebody found that child. ![]() She kept on singing though, and her voice became "thick with sorrow and joy. She looked for weeks, and then for months and she never stopped looking for her child but never did find her. " How her mama searched for her! Oh, for days she cried, and hunted. It knocked Queen Mother Rhythm off her feet and swept the sleeping baby downstream and out of reach and out of sight. She sang her child lullabies " in a voice as flavorful as licorice." But one day, just as her darling little daughter fell asleep, "a hurricane came up out of nowhere. Once upon a time, deep in the swamp, "Queen Mother Rhythm, leader of the Great Gospel Choir" lived with her little, bitty baby girl. ![]()
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