The Wedding Ring
A human, born Ricardo Valentino
Was a philanderer, a no-good louse.
And when he met this pretty dame
He wooed her as his spouse.
Her given name was Betty-Sue,
With hair as black as night
And eyes the bluest blue,
She was a most delightful sight.
She liked her diamond wedding ring,
A seven carat he proclaimed.
He also vowed to stop philandering,
He said: now married he was tamed.
But did Ricardo stop? - Oh, no.
He still kept on philandering
With Mary, Sally, and with Flo,
And others that he had a fling.
But then it happened. Betty-Sue
She recognized he was a lout.
She screamed and raved and flew
Into a rage and threw him out.
She then divorced the louse,
Made sure he wouldn't get a thing.
She kept the bank account, the house,
And certainly her diamond wedding ring.
A few years later came recession
In nineteen-thirty thereabout.
That's when she took her prized possession,
It's worth she wanted to find out.
The jeweler when done examining
Looked up and smiled and said: "Dear lass,
That diamond in your wedding ring
Is just a piece of glass."