“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.