A Father's Toast

Hello there good people, both the young and the old.
My son says this dinner has cost him some gold
So Remember to thank him and give him a nod
This way you won’t be remembered as being a clod.

I remember my son when he was still in his crib
Before he had learned how to fight and to fib.
The years are gone where JD mows my Lawn
And I am in wonder that those years are gone

JD used to ask me all through the day
If he could go out and run and play
He is still related and is know as my son
But he doesn’t have to ask me if he can have some fun.

I am told that I don’t see it that I have it all wrong
That I am gaining a daughter and not loosing a son
Through the years and the tears that have come and gone
T’is amazing he made it not being shot by a gun.

He has calmed and has grown and even has his own phone
He has begged and borrowed and got his own loans
He does his own thing and he goes his own way
He never knew that it would happen to him one day

He thought and reasoned and even asked for advice
What he has done is much more than just throwing the dice
He was looking for something to put in his life
Who knew it would turn out to be a wife

Cheryl’s her name and nursing her game
To marry a redneck might bring her shame
They are so different they just seem so wrong
Sounds like something you’d hear from an old country song

When they’re together they fit like a glove
Some call it flirting maybe its love
I see in their eyes something they can’t fake it
By gollie I think that they might just make it

Raise your glasses and join me. Let’s give ‘em our best
Their whole life is ahead and they’ll soon need a rest
Instead of planning and plotting and telling us maybes
They will get busy and have boatloads of babies!