Hey Kat, far be it from me to contest the lyrics set forth for the song by the Limelighters but I do a slightly different version. Not that any of the important parts are missing mind you, I guess it's just the folk process at work shifting things a bit here and there. Actually it makes me feel good that my version is different. Larry Heagle, the guy who wrote Vasectomy, who I met through my friend Robert Oneman Johnson, probably does it a little differently as well. We all seem to lend ourselves to the same song in slightly different ways, it's what makes us all individuals.
In the eternal reoccurance of spring some branches grow short and others grow long and stil others are, in this case snipped off in their prime.