A man of undoubted pedigree
Distinguished by great dignity
Of such auspicious ancestry,
Impressive genealogy
To the tip of the root
Of his fine family tree.
He’d present himself impressively
And his manners were quite genuinely
Refined and quite impeccably
Beyond the local peasantry
The rough and ready likes of you and me.
Alas it often seemed to me
That the family’s eccentricity
Could often seem suspiciously
As if they bred too speedily
And often not too brainily.
So though they dressed impressively
It wasn’t clear so obviously
That they were, very, very smart.
via Pedigree
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