Sent to me be a friend ---------- From: Deborah Link[SMTP:deborah@gte.net] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 1997 11:35 AM To: Debbie Mauelshagen; Anne Brown Subject: Fw: j lindsay <zemira@ozemail.com.au>: Hope you don't mind all these bits & pieces! ---------- From: Margaret J Stevens <joycestevens@juno.com> To: WESSEX-PLUS@rootsweb.com Cc: MalStevens@juno.com Subject: j lindsay <zemira@ozemail.com.au>: Hope you don't mind all these bits & pieces! Date: Saturday, July 19, 1997 8:23 AM They think that I should cook and clean. And be a model wife I tell them its more interesting To know of grandpa's life. They simply will not understand Why I never go to bed... I'm busy living my own life, And two hundred other years instead. Why waste the time we have on earth Snoring and asleep? When we can fight off Indians and sail upon the deep? We've preachers and lawmen, Soldiers, more than a few... And yes, a few old scoundrels And a bootlegger or two. How can a person find this life An awful drudge or bore? When they can live the lives of all Those kinfolks who came before? A hundred years from now And no one will ever know Whether I did the laundry... But they'll see our Tree and glow... Knowing their dear old granny Left for prosperity Not clean hankies and weeded flower beds But a completed Family Tree! So let the bills go unpaid, I've better things to do... And forgetting will make the records And provide a descendent with a clue, To the way their old great great granny Grasped the branches with glee And let the bills go hang while she hung upon the Tree! --------- End forwarded message ----------