We left on Saturday in a big car
To all have a big picnic out in nature
Taking along baskets, bottles, packages
Pickles, mustard
Bread, butter, little onions
Jams and hard-boiled eggs
Corned beef and crispbreads
Macaroons, a corkscrew
Petit-Beurre cookies and beer
We hadn't forgotten anything, Mom had done it all
She'd worked three days without stopping
To prepare the baskets, the bottles, the packages
The cold chicken, the mayonnaise, the chocolate
The mushrooms, the can openers
But when we arrived, we found rain
What we'd forgotten was the umbrellas
We brought back the baskets, the bottles, the packages
Jams and the pickles
Mayonnaise and the pickles
The chicken, the crispbreads
The hard-boiled eggs and then the pickles