--part1_0.1c60767d.25545292_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does any of this sound familiar? Y'all Come, Bill Childress "To be a Virginian either by Birth, Marriage, Adoption, or even on one's Mothers side is an Introduction to any State in the Union, a Passport to any Foreign Country, and a Benediction from Above." .........Anonymous --part1_0.1c60767d.25545292_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yc04.mx.aol.com (rly-yc04.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.36]) by air-yc04.mail.aol.com (v62.15) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Nov 1999 10:01:13 -0500 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-yc04.mx.aol.com (v62.10) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Nov 1999 10:00:55 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA25736; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 06:59:48 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 06:59:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Don Dawson" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:58:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Subject: [COX] Fw: [BROWN-L] Kinsman Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1499 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] This was posted to another list I'm on and thought it was cute enough to pass on. Michelle Lackey-Dawson ----- Original Message ----- From: kat choo <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:35 AM Subject: [BROWN-L] Kinsman > Kinsman (original poem by Wayne Hand, 1999) > > > Alas, my elusive kinsman > You've led me quite a chase > I thought I'd found your courthouse > But the Yankees burned the place. > You always kept your bags packed > Although you had no fame, and > Just for the fun of it > Twice you changed your name. > You never owed any man, or > At least I found no bills > In spite of eleven offspring > You never left a will. > They say our name's from Europe > Came state side on a ship > Either they lost the passenger list > Or granddad gave them the slip. > I'm the only one looking > Another searcher I can't find > I pray (maybe that's his fathers name) > As I go out of my mind. > They said you had a headstone > In a shady plot > I've been there twenty times, and > Can't even find the lot. > You never wrote a letter > Your Bible we can't find > It's probably in some attic > Out of sight and out of mind. > You first married a .....Smith > And just to set the tone > The other four were Sarahs > And everyone a Jones. > You cost me two fortunes > One of which I did not have > My wife, my house and Fido > God, how I miss that yellow lab. > But somewhere you slipped up, > Ole Boy, Somewhere you left a track > And if I don't find you this year > Well...... Next year I'll be back! > > > > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > ============================== FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi --part1_0.1c60767d.25545292_boundary--