Our staff here at the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center celebrate the winter holidays each year by exchanging cards, small gifts, mailing cards to our wonderful volunteers, and, in one unfortunate case, writing new lyrics to an old holiday song.<\/p>\n
Here is this season’s effort.\u00a0 Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n
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I Want a Genealogy for Christmas<\/strong> I want a genealogy for Christmas I want a genealogy for Christmas I can see me now at Christmas parties, I want a long anCEStor list for Christmas Mom says our family were ordinary men There\u2019s lots of people out there with regal family trees I can see me now at the DAR– I want a genealogy for Christmas Our staff here at the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center celebrate the winter holidays each year by exchanging cards, small gifts, mailing cards to our wonderful volunteers, and, in one unfortunate case, writing new lyrics to an old holiday song. Here … Continue reading
\n(to be sung to the tune of I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas<\/a><\/em> by John Rox)<\/p>\n
\nOnly famous, high-born kin will do
\nDon\u2019t want the facts, no dinky simple folk
\nI want a genealogy that will make my neighbors choke<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t think that will be too hard, do you?
\nYou don\u2019t have to slog through records proven true
\nJust use those freebie websites–
\nThat\u2019s the easy thing to do.<\/p>\n
\nBragging on the stair
\nOh what envy and surprise
\nWhen I direct their eyes
\nTo all the famous people listed there!<\/p>\n
\nOnly blue-blooded, famous ones will do
\nNo laborers, no common Joes.
\nI only want Civil War heroes
\nAnd a lot of royalty would suit me, too!<\/p>\n
\nShe doesn\u2019t get that bloodlines are the next big hottest trend!<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019d bet they\u2019d all jump at the chance to add a nut like me . . .<\/p>\n
\nI could be the Chair!
\nOh, it\u2019ll just take enterprise
\nAnd just a few white lies
\nTo connect me to the people listed there<\/p>\n
\nOnly famous, high-born kin will do
\nDon\u2019t want just folks, Don\u2019t care what Grandma says
\nI only like kings, dukes and duchesses
\nAnd I know the duchesses were like me, too!<\/p>\n