The Letter - Brian Dewan

Once a lady did receive a letter in the mail

She cut open the envelope to see what was inside

The letter said, «Make copies to mail to 20 people

The chain has been around the world 50,000 times!»

The letter said there was a man who kept the chain unbroken

Soon afterward, he won a million dollars and retired

But another man had failed to keep the letter going

He was killed in an automobile just after he was fired

The lady cried, «This city is full of crazy people

Why must I put up with such rubbish every day?»

She left home the very next day to see her younger sister

But she fell into an underground cavern on the way

A banker got the letter and failed to mail it promptly

Clearly, he did not believe in the letter’s awesome power

He fell out the window of a seven-story building

Got tangled in the trolley wires, and sparks shot out his mouth

The letter fell into the hands of a yankee antique dealer

He decided it was bunk and threw it in the cellar

He bid on an auction for a haunted vianola

When he got it home, the ghost inside haunted his house forever

A preacher got the letter and read it top to bottom

But he did not consider himself a superstitious man

The minute that he threw it out, his blind and deaf assistant

Cut him into pieces and sold him by the pound

So all of you young gentlemen and all of you young ladies

I know you’ll take a warnin' and listen well to me

Never dare to make a sport of, ridicule, or laugh at

The people who are not afraid to fear the powers that be