Alabama Song

John Derbyshire has a typically politically incorrect poem that I couldn’t help but laugh at:

Laurie Lee done fell in love;
She planned to marry Joe.
She was so happy ’bout it all
She told her Pappy so.
Pappy told her, “Laurie gal,
You’ll have to find another.
I’d just as soon yer Ma don’t know,
But Joe is yer half brother”
So Laurie put aside her Joe
And planned to marry Will.
But after telling Pappy this,
He said, “There’s trouble still…
You cannot marry Will, my gal.,
And please don’t tell yer Mother,
But Will and Joe and several mo’
I know is yer half brother”
But Mama knew and said, “My child,
Just do what makes you happy.
Marry Will or marry Joe.
You ain’t no kin to Pappy.