Because if I left the Church my wife’d kill me—

  and who knows, polygamy might come back!

    Besides, I’ve been a Mormon for so long

       I can’t even imagine not being one.

         And, finally and frankly, I stay because

           I have a testimony of the Restored Gospel;

              I know God lives; Jesus is the Christ;

                 the Book of Mormon is the Word of God.

                    The prophet Joseph Smith translated

                 the Book of Mormon by the Power of God,

             saw and spoke with the Father and the Son.

           The Holy Ghost tells me these things are true.

         And let me end by saying, in all sincerity,

       that if, by chance, I were to leave the Church,

     after having been a member for almost 60 years,

   and then, say, polygamy happened to come back—

for sure I’d be begging my (one) wife to shoot me!