Blue-Haired Lady -

Blue-haired lady, kneeling by her bed

Trying to recite all the things daddy taught her Jesus said

Blue-haired lady squints into the sun

Distant voices calling her, maybe from the light comes one:

«You served your husband well

Saved all your kids from hell

Built from a house a home

What say you before you roam?»

«Well, I walked the straight and narrow

Kept my eyes on the sparrow

I loved, I lost, I tried, I lead, I followed, fell, but forged ahead

My time is drawing near

And I’m strangely free of fear

Release me from this flesh and bone

But don’t let me die alone

Don’t let me die alone"

Blue-haired lady beginning to arrange

Paths and plots and closing thoughts, on shifting sands and winds of change

All these people speaking loud and slow

Seeing spots from old snapshots, the clouds fly low in San Francisco

«Momma who should have your ring?»

«Do what you want with everything

All these things have little worth

This could be my last day on Earth»

Don’t let me die alone

Don’t let me die alone

Blue-haired lady, dying in her bed

Songs and tears impounding her, fingers clenched and scriptures read

Dear old woman gives into the pain

Feels the love surrounding her but gathers the strength to explain

«I trained you up how you should go

Loved you hard, it’s clear you know

But let the songs and wailing cease

Children let me die in peace»

Just let me die alone

Just let me die alone

Please let me die alone

Just let me die alone