"Fill Out the Policies, Mother"

You may enjoy listening to a novelty song, sung in barbershop quartet style by Sherman & Larsen, entitled Fill Out the Policies, Mother.

Here are the lyrics:

It's just a formality, mother,
Sign on the dotted line.

Fill out the policies, mother,
Twenty-five cents at a time.

Last year daddy died
Of a strange malady,

Now sister is gone,
There's just you and me ...

So fill out the policies, mother,
Insurance should not be ignored.

You've signed it and so,
There's one more to go,

Here's your box-lunch,
Now hurry aboard.

Just one more formality, mother,
Here's your unsigned will.

Strange, how I found the thing with me,
Does your fountain-pen need a refill?

And, finally now, here's your property deed.
Your power-of-attorney is all that i need.

So, fill out the papers, dear mother,
And you will rest easy tonight,

Knowing if you should die,
I'll be one wealthy guy!

Here's your box-lunch,
Now get on that flight!

Special thanks to H. Carter Hood of the Washington, D.C. firm of Ivins, Phillips & Barker for bringing this song to my attention.