The Ballad of Us!

 

Our family gathered for my brother's wedding!

 Something I wrote to help my new sister-in law Pamela get to know a bit about our family!

The Ballad of Us

On a rock in the sea

Where roars the atlantic

Where sea gulls squawk shrilly

Feathered and frantic

Two families  merged

Like a waltz to a song

One was named parsons

The other named strong

In November they wed

Fish or no fish

It was what both did want

It was what was their wish

But tis not about that

I write this small song

Tis the parsons I write of

And the other family

named strong

The Strongs were in Morries Harbour

Their property was large

The mother was Meta

The father was Garge

They had a boy as a starter

Eldred was he

and the other end  was Willis

But  the rest were all She

Now you’re not gonna believe

When I name them all to ya

What a mother and father

Without thought can do to ya

After Eldred the naming

Got out control

They all ended the same

And this is how it did go

Phillis, Doris,Alice,

Gladys, Frances, Willis

And some of their children

Are here tonight with us

Twenty in total,

all cousins, all friends,

lucky we are

but that’s not where it ends

See They settled in Cove

That new family to be

And had Carolyn and Derek

And our sister

Marie

Yes I said it out of order

I mixed up the timing

But I had to do it that way

So it woulnd’t f..mix up the rhyming

And the Cove was the home

Of the other half of the sum

The Parsons lived up there

The time to name them has come

There was Bessie, a Leyte

She was as a girl

Til  Walter John came along

And changed her whole world

And they raised twelve kids

A fine family for sure

Up in the cove

On a hill by the shore

They lived in that house

A big lively spot

With Nan at the helm

Though twas spose to be Pop

There’s too many to name

Twelve? What were they thinkin?

12 youngsters would drive

A person to drinkin

But 12 they had

And they all reproduced

And I’ve counted them all

And here’s what I’ve deduced.

32 is the number

16 girls, 16 boys

All even and round

Now isn’t that nice

I’d count all their kids

And their kids kids too

But there’s way too many

It would take too long to do

And recently I heard

Have you heard the news

Aunt Betty Lou’s crowd

Is now having them in twos!

So that is the family

In a nut shell

And that’s probably

A clue Pam, cause

We’re all nuts as well

But you’ve noticed I’m sure

And you’ve still stuck around

In fact you picked a fine nut

Up off of the ground

That nut is my brother

And it’s good to see

That you’ve made him

Ever so very happy

Welcome aboard

From both Parsons and Strong

We are all glad you came

You’re where you belong

You’re one of us now

And we hope you’re happy to be

Part of our

Big nutty family