>Sound like anyone YOU know?
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>They think that I should cook and clean, and be a model wife.
>I tell them it's more interesting to study Grandpa's life.
>They simply do not understand why I hate to go to bed.
>I'd rather do two hundred years of research work instead.
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>Why waste the time we have on earth just snoring and asleep?
>When we can learn of ancestors that sailed upon the deep?
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>We have Priests, Rabbis, lawmen, soldiers, more than just a few.
>And yes, there's many scoundrels, and a bootlegger or two.
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>How can a person find this life and awful drudge or bore?
>When we can live the lives of all those folks who came before?
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>A hundred years from now of course, no one will ever know,
>whether I did laundry, but they'll see our Tree and glow...
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>'Cause their dear old granny left for them, for all posterity,
>not clean hankies and the like, but a finished family tree!
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>My home may be untidy, 'cause I've better things to do...
>I'm checking all the records to provide us with a clue.
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>Old great granny's pulling, roots and branches out with glee,
>her clothes ain't hanging out to dry, she's hung up on the Tree!!!
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>Evelyn
>LaraWyo(a)aol.com