Dear Santa: Don' t bring me new dishes
I don' t need a new kind of game
Genealogists have peculiar wishes
For Christmas I just want a surname.
A new washing machine would be great
But it' s not the desire of my life
I've just found an ancestor' s birth date
What I need now is the name of his wife.
My heart doesn' t yearn for a ring
That would put a diamond to shame
What I want is a much cheaper thing
Please give me Mary' s last name.
To see my heart singing with Joy
Don' t bring me a leather suicase
Just bring me a genealogist' s toy
A surname with dates and a place.
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