Hey, boy!
A nickel,
A dime,
A dollar,
Two dollars a day.
Hey, boy!
A nickel,
A dime,
A dollar,
Two dollars a day
Buy shoes for the baby.
House rent to pay.
Gin on Saturday,
Church on Sunday.
My God!
Babies and gin and church
And women and Sunday
These lines contrast Sunday, a day of worship, with the rest of the week. The specific example of “Gin on Saturday” is a particularly stark contrast since alcohol and church rarely mix in many Christian churches. 
 Hughes went to church every Sunday as a child, so it was a big part of his family and childhood. 
 Hughes’s poem,  Salvation  further demonstrates his close relationship with spirituality.
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