FAMILY TREE
(Tom Chapin, John Forster, Limousine Music, The Last Music Co" 1987)

Before the days of Jello
Lived a prehistoric fellow
Who loved a maid and courted her
Beneath the banyan tree
And they had lots of children
And their children all had children
And they kept on having children until
One of them had me

My grandpa came from Russia,
My grandma came from Prussia
They met in Nova Scotia,
Had my dad in Tennessee
Then they moved to Yokahama
Where daddy met my mama,
Her dad's from Alabama
And her mom's part Cherokee

One fine day I may go
To Tiera del Fuego,
Perhaps I'll meet my wife there and
We'll move to Timbuktoo
And our kid will be bilingual,
And though she may stay single,
She could of course co-mingle
With the king of Kathmandu

The folks in Madagascar
Aren't the same as in Alakar
They have different foods, different moods and
Different colored skin
You may have a different name but
Underneath we're much the same,
You're probably my cousin and
The whole world is my kin 'cause

We're a fam'ly and we're a tree
Our roots go deep down in history
From my great, great granddaddy
Reaching up to me
We're a green and growing fam'ly tree
We're a green and growing fam'ly

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