"Welcome to the Family", by Little Big Town

"Welcome to the Family",
by Little Big Town

Welcome to the family. Hope you have a real good life
With my little sister. Yeah, she'll make a real good wife.
Hope you have lots of babies; hope you get a real good job.
Hope you don't mind company, 'cause we'll be here a lot.
And brother here's some brotherly advice:
If you know what's good for you, you'll treat her right.

'Cause Grandpa's the local sheriff. He's the judge and the jury too.
Uncle Bill's the undertaker. Son, he'll dig a hole for you.
Cousin Jesse, he's just crazy. He'll fight you just for fun.
Mama's got a real bad temper, and daddy's got a shotgun.

Welcome to the family and this side of the tracks.
If you ever leave her, you ain't coming back.
My nephew Red's a hunter. He's gonna hunt you down,
Just like he did the last one, and he still ain't been found.
Now, I like you just fine. Don't get me wrong.
But boy take care of her, 'cause if you don't-

Grandpa's the local sheriff. He's the judge and the jury too.
Uncle Bill's the undertaker. Son, he'll dig a hole for you.
Cousin Jesse, he's just crazy. He'll fight you just for fun.
Mama's got a real bad temper, and daddy's got a shotgun.

Welcome to the family. Hope you have a real good life
With my little sister, Yeah, she'll make a real fine wife.

Man in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Citizenship in a Republic,"

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910