So I settled down in Nazareth,
where I married and multiplied.
When I first arrived, it was much as if
some devil in me had died.
We named our kids after devilish jerks
I’d come across in the past.
(Early death is what they got for perks.
I’m the one that sin must outlast!)
Now Chester and Luke and Anna Lee
have gone off to lives of their own
and added their kids to humanity.
And Fanny? She’s two years flown.
I’m all needled up with this bag of meds.
Who knows what the bills will be!
But I’m lucky, cuz their warn’t enough beds
to fill the infirmary.
Remember that song, when we made our vow?
When I got down on my knee?
Dear Fanny, I’m taking my load off now.
You were right. It ain’t for free!