Hey, listen everybody, while I spread a bit of news...
Sy and Isabel just came back from a little cruise,
A sixty-one year celebration of their wedding day
Up and down the MIssissippi just to get away.

A riverboat gambling ship it was, with all amenities
Nice rooms, good food and extras that were guaranteed to please.
They bid the Gateway arch goodbye and started on their trip
To have a little pleasure down mighty Mississip....

Sy spent time relaxing, reading books and acting cool
While ogling the bathing beauties at the ship's main pool.
He looked at what he'd sacrificed for sixy-one long years
And shook his head in sadness as he tried to hold back tears.

Isabel hit all buffets...she loved to fill her plate
And anyone who cut in front would meet a cruel fate.
She loved to gamble but was mad that she could not find any
Slot machines or games of chance that would accept a penny.

On the third day, she said, "Sy! Get dressed! You're going with me now!
They're going to have a service to renew our wedding vow."
Sy's face turned pale, hands shaking, as he thought, "This can't be true!"
AGAIN he'd have to say those dreaded words of doom - I DO!"

She led him to a large room - there were many couples there.
The women all had smiles - the men wore faces of despair.
One by one, each couple made the vows they had before
While Sy was trying to figure out if he could swim to shore.



At lastSy's turn came as the man said, "Seymour, do you take...."
His throat was dry, his head hurt and his hands began to shake.
He knew he had to answer but his blank mind couldn't think...
This was like giving the Titanic a second chance to sink!!!

Isabel was now glaring and poor Sy was getting nervous.
Everyone was staring - Sy was ruining the service!!
The words were then read once again and, when the man was through,
Sy's mouth flew open wide and screamed with all his might, "I DO!!!!!!!!"

Isabel was smiling and Sy looked a little dazed.
Everyone was cheering with their champagne glasses raised.
No one saw the hatpin Isabel kept out of sight...
(Sy said the pain and bleeding kept our boy up half the night!)

They're home now....life has settled back to how it once had been.
Sy sits and mumbles all day long, "I said those words again...."
As hurricane Isabel approaches, we all cringe in fear
But Sy's been living in her path for over sixty years!!!