More Ups Than Downs

Life has many ups and downs

Personally more ups than downs

A happy long life with many more years

A bunch more smiles than frowns

Surely one of the fortunate ones

The genes were a very huge factor

Ten kids and us at a baseball game

In the bleachers, we had our own sector

Nine were girls and then li'l ole me

The talk of our little old burg

The Ellison's have finally produced a boy

Biggest news our town had heard

Dancing in the streets, parties all night

A celebrity at a tender young age

Predicted to be spoiled with all those girls

To fawn over this sweet wee babe

Turned out sweet, a stunning specimen

Can still bring it at eighty-one!

It's getting tougher and tougher, though

That's about it and I'm done!

Well that's my life in a nutshell, my friends

Unique I guess you could say

In this day and age of smaller families

Our story is rare nowadays