I have never forgiven myself

When I was going to school, over there in Mount Forest, oh I'd be eight or nine I guess. The whole gang of us, were out this here day and we were playing in the corn patch. We were playing hide and go seek or something. And my best friend, one of my best friends, he went, he went to the school the next morning, he told the school teacher that he caught me with a girl in the corn patch. So when I came in, into school in the morning, she said, "Donald," she never called me Taffy. "Donald, get out in the hall." She came out with a strap, give me one hell of a strap. I'd be nine or ten, ten then, and I joined the army at 17, went over seas, was over there four years and the first day I came back, oh my god I'm all dressed up in my outfit and I'm going to the school, never thinking. So I went to the kindergarten class first, then up to, went up to Vera's class and knocked at the door and this kid, kid came and I said, "I would like to speak to the school teacher." Well he said, "Come on in." Vera was up at her desk and as soon she saw me, she just dropped everything, came running over. She threw her arms around me and she was crying and she said, "Donald, I had never forgiven me." I said, "What for? " "Oh," she said, "You haven't.." and then it . . . "Oh yes, I have." She said, "Many's a night, I go to bed thinking about you fellas over there and what I did to you." I said, "Vera, forget about it." After all them years, she never forgot.