Nuts On Every Limb Of Our Family Tree

There's Nuts On Every Limb Of Our Family Tree

There's a big old streak of insanity
runs right through our family
Grandpa had it and so did Uncle Lee.

There's not really much that I can do
except warn all the normal folks like you
that there's nuts on every limb of our family tree.

They march to the sound of different drummin'
some think aliens in space ships are coming.
And there's a few who say that they've already been probed.

Biological sports and mutant traits
are just a part of my family's fates
There's more than DNA in our human code.

There's not really much that I can do
except warn all the normal folks like you
that there's nuts on every limb of our family tree.

Something dead's floating in our genetic pool
that makes them bark and hop and drool.
It's a wonder we haven't been arrested by County Health.

We look for jobs that won't over-work us,
and farm out our kids to the traveling circus.
Their pay checks account for most of our family's wealth.

It could be because we married kin,
or soaked up pesticides in our skin,
but whatever it is, it seems it's here to stay.

When a baby's born we all go visit,
stand back aways and ask "What is it"?
And we don't mean just whether it's a boy or girl.

With full grown teeth and frizzy hair,
we say, "Well that's a baby you got there!"
Nature spun the bottle and we got an extra twirl.

They could turn out dull as a bowling ball
or wild as a squirrel in a fashion mall,
like a box of chocolates we never know what we'll get.

The men all go to the porch and fight
about who guessed the most parts right
and pay off the one who says he won the bet.

There's not really much that I can do
except warn all the normal folks like you
that there's nuts on every limb of our family tree.

Anne Hillebrand  2007