Question of Family

Well I bought me a plum tree, planted it straight away
gave it love and attention, watered it every day
Saw it bloom in the springtime but no fruit did appear
When the leaves fell in autumn I thought: Maybe next year

So I waited through winter, through the ice and the snow
another spring and a summer, still had nothing to show
So I asked of an expert why the fruit didnt come
He said: This trees ornamental. There wont be any plums.

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Its a question of family that comes up now and then
its a subject thats slippery Im sure you understand
that my faith and my patience is almost at an end
for the question of family that begins with When?

Im afraid to go shopping at the grocery store
You see, Ive got a heart condition that I just cant ignore
Cause when I look at a baby in its mothers arms
and twins in a stroller set off all my alarms

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