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It's A Happening (For Socks)

from The Wondarium – Limited Edition Handprinted by Jeni Hankins

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I had a dream that I turned the corner in London and a bunch of people were flocking to the stocking scene at a happening for socks. Even my great-grandmother was there. She was given a purple sock. After the song was pretty much finished, I inherited two pairs of socks from my friend Norman; one had elephants, the other had tigers. So, those socks stepped into the song, too.

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It’s a Happening (for Socks)

It’s a happening for socks –
to hear them talk,
appreciate the colors,
walk that walk.

Daddy used to wear them
with his Harvard tie.
Watched them from the rug
when he smoked his pipe.
Aunt Elsie wore hers
up to her knee
’til her socks succumbed
to gravity.

It’s a happening for socks –
to hear them talk,
appreciate the colors,
walk that walk.
If it’s happening for socks,
it’s happening for you.
So, sock it to me honey
the way you do.

Had a purple sock
looking for a speech.
Stack of old playbills
ain’t gonna sing.
Tigers and elephants
to my knee –
jungle sock
menagerie.

Who took all the socks?
Who moved all the chairs?
Was it all a dream?
Or were we all there?

I got socks
right up my leg.
Tried to remember
what the argyle said.
Some wore red
and some wore green.
People kept flocking
to the stocking scene.

Hose in yellow.
Hose in blue.
If the socks ain’t happening,
is the happening through?

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from The Wondarium – Limited Edition Handprinted, released October 15, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI,
and Alfred John Hickling, Sweet Pea Music.

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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