The Ballad of the New Family

The Ballad of The New Family
By Captain Midnight

Based on the song “We Are Family” 
Author unknown; sung by Sister Sledge

Three women who fall in love create an extended family.

The pattern of the chorus is taken from the song, but the choruses are actually additional verses that carry the story along. In the original song you hear the same chorus about 15 times followed by a fugue with snippets from earlier verses. Doing it this way wasn’t easy, but I like a challenge.

(Chorus)

(8-bar intro)

We are family …
I got all my sisters with me …
We are family …
Women one, two and three …

She and she and she …
Had each lost much of her family …
 One temporarily …
 But the others they will never see …

(Verse 1)

Deployment, accident and 
Prejudice
Had left them alone
For above a year …

And
 Each of them tried to deal
with her sadness
And accompanying fear …

So
One became passive,
one assertive, One projected

How would she love …
Someone so like her husband
But with the delicacy of a dove …

(Chorus)

They were family …
Mom, Dad, son and a grandbaby …
And she wanted to see
Who else would take her love offered free?

Meanwhile by the sea …
Another’s parents died senselessly …
And it was plain to see
Her aunt wanted her far away as could be …

(Verse 2)

To a boarding school out of Dickens
She was packed away …

And
She became more shy, introverted
With each passing day …

One
Night a storm from the south
Made her room feel
Like the mouth of Hell …

And
A classmate appeared
And lay with her,
That they’d be lovers was as clear as a bell …

(Chorus)

They became family
There had never been
Another she …

Who in her heart could plainly see
How much she needed to be
Cared for so she could feel free.

So they moved to be
Away from rejecting family …
To be friends, lovers, sisters maybe?

(Verse 3)

A thousand miles away
On the Internet …
Mom started to write
About her desires …

And
To make love with a woman or two
Really stoked her fires …

Then
One of the girls read 
The story and she saw 
Between the lines …

That
Sex, nurturing and self-esteem
Held equal place
In her grand designs …

(Chorus)

She started writing to she …
Praising her lifelike story …
Soon they wanted to be
Far more than a chat buddy …

Mom told her husband and he
To help them all did agree …

So at Easter she drove to see
If two lovers could make three?

(Verse 4)

They sat on a couch and wondered
How they could go through with this …

So
The take-charge girl 
Led them in the bedroom 
And delivered each kiss …

Both
Of the others were passive,
One was new, one was shy …

But
Some soaked bed sheets later 
They started on the way to bliss …

(Chorus)

Mom went home to family
Feeling so sexually free
And she conferred with hubby,
“Can they visit you and me?”

Hubby said “OK by me,
But I don’t want to be
Third wheel to you three,
Let them do what comes naturally.”

(Verse 5)

He dearly loved his wife
And she loved him back 
With all her heart …

So
They agreed he would be the girls’ friend
And she their lover
Keep their roles apart …

Still
She wanted to give them
As good as they’d given her
Their first taste of love that she knew so well
Between a him and a her …

(Chorus)

Her son’s family
Was far less happy than 
It seemed to be …
His wife’s jealousy
Crushed the love between he and she …

So his mom asked if he
Would come and take their virginity …
Though surprised they all did agree
Since Mom was great her son might just be?

So he took each cherry
And to their surprise, the alpha she
Fell in love with him instantly
A couple they wanted to be

(Verse 6)

Meanwhile Mom and girlfriend
Had fallen in love 
And they loved Dad too …

So
He made arrangements 
To accommodate
The whole crew,

He
Got them good jobs,
Free room and board,
Welcoming barbecue …

He even made love
To his wife
And her girlfriend too …

(Chorus)

They are family,
He, he, she, she, she …
 Natural and adoptee
Happiness supremely?

In this family
Will there be wedding and pregnancy?
Mom cuddles girlfriend like she
Is in her womb like a new baby …

It’s far more 
Than just pussy
That bonds him, her, he, she, she

Compassionately 
Encouragingly …

They help each other to be
Far greater than they dared to foresee …
They’ve set each member free
To grow in mind, soul and body

So this family
Unconventional though it may be
Not sure, but perhaps they will be
Together through eternity?

SING IT, GIRLS!

We are family …
I got all my sisters with me …
We are family …
What a gift you’ve all given me!

(Final music)