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Banjo Granny

Sarah Martin Busse
& Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Illustrated by Barry Root

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY • BOSTON 2006

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Owen's Song

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There's a ba-by that I know, jigs and wig-gles top to toe, when a

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ban-jo pulls a tune down from the sky. Yes he al-ways starts to grin when he

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hears a man-do-lin. He's my jim-my jam-ming, jum-ping blue-grass child. Just to

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see him smile, I would walk a thou-sand miles. I would set the West wind spin-ning on its

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ear. Soon I'll walk through that front door and we'll get to say "Hel-lo!" Wop-a

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doo - sy, lap - a - dai - sy doo, my dear!

To grannies everywhere, especially to Ginny Lyon—one of the best of them. And to grandbabies everywhere,
with hopes they'll have many wiggly, jiggly, all-around giggly good times. —S.M.B. & J.B.M.
To Charles LeRoy Root —B.R.