When I was a kid,

Mom used to take us

To band practices or

To her shows, and I

Loved it so very much.

So when Mme Martin

Asked us to write about

Something we did, I of

Course wrote about going

To the bar to watch mom.

The bar was called 

Le bar de l'Ô, and when

Mme Martin corrected

My assignment, she

Changed it to 'bord de l'eau'.

I guess a second-grader

Writing about a bar didn't

Register with her and she

Thought I meant we were

By the water, not at a bar.

But that was the place's name,

A bit of a play on words for

'Bord de l'eau', but I guess 

Mme Martin thought I was

Writing phonetically as kids do.

I didn't like corrections on

My assignments, and I knew

What I wrote wasn't wrong.

I remember the spelling on

The bar's sign, it stood out,

So I wrote it exactly how I saw it.

But I guess Mme Martin couldn't

Imagine such circumstances were

A possibility, too uncommon, I suppose.

But, yeah, by then, I'd been to many bars.

Mom was a singer / musician,

She'd take us with her when she performed.