Pride

The Bible says that pride's the cause of people falling down, And an example of this truth I once saw in our town, When we were driving on the street and watching passers-by, From out a store stepped a fine dude, all dressed in silk hat high, And pants so tight he could not take a single manly stride, His moustache curled and round his neck a ribbon pink and wide, While in his hand a gold head cane, which he twirled round and round, So that the people all would know a great man was in town; But being filled with pride of self he did not know his heel Had come in contact with a part of a banana peel Until it felled him to the earth and smashed his silk hat's crown And even then he did not know 'twas PRIDE that knocked him down.