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Thread #157032 Message #3703569
Posted By: GUEST,#
22-Apr-15 - 08:27 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Mother Country
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Mother Country
'In many ways the problem between England and the colonies was like a problem between a parent and a growing child Check The Source - "Letters From A Farmer". In Philadelphia one of America's most famous citizens—a great writer, thinker, and inventor named Benjamin Franklin—wrote a funny poem about "Mother England." It went like this:
"We have an old mother that peevish is grown,
She snubs us like children that scarce walk alone;
She forgets we're grown-up and have sense of our own." '
from
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web01/segment3_p.html