If You Could See Your Ancestors (Nellie Winslow Simmons Randall) If you could see your ancestors All standing in a row, Would you be proud of them or not? Or don't you really know? Some strange discoveries are made In climbing family trees. And some of them, you know, Do not particularly please. If you could see your ancestors All standing in a row, There might be some of them perhaps You shouldn't care to know. But here's another question Which requires a different view - If you could meet your ancestors Would they be proud of you?