When the time for the Murphy reunion drew near
We heard Sylvia sing in a voice loud and clear,
Now Virgil get the cows home and put them in the pen
For the Murphys are coming to see us all again.

There's Chess and May, Minnie and Merle,
Millie and Jay, Ralph and Pearl.
Erma and the children, Lyla and Dean
Olive and Floyd, Erma and Gene.

There's Adah and Allie, Jessie and Fox,
Myron and Lelah, Cordie and Jack
There's Ora and Maggie, Cora and Miles,
Wynn and Julia and Vernon from Niles.

There's Julia and John Rutter, Anna and John Stemm
Warren and Olive and all of them.
There's Belle and Elihu, Imogene and Wilfred
Carl and Olive, Sera and Winifred.

There's Nobe and Verne, Clair and May,
Sarah and the children, and Guy and Ray.
There's Helen and Mary, Margret and Jo,
Marvin and Margret Imogene and Marjorie too.

Kenneth and Gladys, Mable and Dick,
Nettie and Jarvis, Geraldine and Flick,
Marion and Wilma, Lester and Christie,
Julia and Leslie, we very nearly missed ye.

There's Grace and Orla and Julia too,
And Glenn and Inez from Kalamazoo,
We are all very glad to see Ella here too,
Why didn't you bring Charley and Kenneth with you.

Two years ago we had with us Nimrod and Mary,
We were hoping this year to have Albert and Sarah,
There's Maud and Arthur and Will's folks in the west,
We all are wishing they were here with the rest.

There's Ed and Ada, Christine and Wynn too,
Lena and Esther, were glad to see you.
We have a lot of nice girls now I'm telling the truth,
There's Mary Elizabeth Virginia and Ruth

Dorothy and Thelma, Kathryn and Mary Jo,
Marjorie, Esther, and Evelyn you know
There's Doris and her husband, Erma and Ellenore
Virginia Jane, and Ruth, and Margrets galore.

There's Norma and her family, Meda and Bertha May,
And Margret and Mildred so very far away.
There's Phyllis, Edith, Marget Ellen, and Marilyn
Janice, and Lonetta, Margret and Nellie Irene.

I mustn't forget our rising young men,
There's Millard and Wendell, Dick, Irving and Glenn,
Donald, and Graydon, Harold and Fay,
Winfred Melvin and Orville so far far away.

There's Otie, Jack Jr. Richard and Bob,
In playing their games they're right on the job
There's Robert, Victor, Albert and Harvey Glenn,
In a very short time they all will be men.

There's Stutson, Chester, Kenneth Jr. and Paul
Laverne and Kenneth Webster and Maud's Robert that's all
Warren Charles Rutter is the youngest, the oldest of all
Are Uncle Albert and Aunt Sarah, Aunt Mead and Uncle Sol.