<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438419" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just Too Grand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I suppose if I wanted, <br>I could be a prude and standoffish.<br>With a résumé to prove, <br>In my life I've accomplished...<br>What few can and could do.<br>If...<br>I chose to put my nose up in the air.<br>And carried on with that kind of flair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother's father, <br>Had been a leader of his own band.<br>Appearing here and there and across the land.<br>And for some reason then, <br>I couldn't 'stand' him.<br>He was just too grand! <br>And those feelings were mutual.<br>I just was not impressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today? <br>I can understand why he was that way.<br>And I hope he has forgiven me for saying, <br>Whenever he telephoned to speak to my mom...<br>'Ma, some guy is on the phone claiming to be your father.<br>You know...<br>He of the George Frank Roberts Band.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~That's 'your' grandfather.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I'm Sammy Davis, Junior.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dedicated to my grandfather: <br>In Loving Memory<br>George Frank Roberts, <br>Englewood, New Jersey</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Love you, grand-daddy.<br>Even though we had 'many' differences, <br>of opinion.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438419" data-title="Just Too Grand de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I suppose if I wanted, I could be a prude and standoffish. With a résumé to prove, In my life I've accomplished... What few can and could do. If... I chose to put my nose up in the air. And carried on with that kind of flair. My mother's fath..."></div> </div> </div>

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