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Thank You Louise Lyrics
Everyone when she was young,
They said she was the pretty one
She’s pretty now, just watch her as she goes
Waiting for the bus to come,
She holds the hands of someone young
Whose mother comes and she sees her and she smiles
Thank you Louise, Mary Louise, mother of three
Waiting in the check out line
The supermarket, Christmas time
She eyes someone who doesn’t have the change
Takes a dollar from her purse
She pays and doesn’t say a word
She winks and grins and Merry Christmas, friend
Thank you Louise, Mary Louise, mother of three
In Baltimore, the freezing cold,
It chills her daughter to the bone
She walks from work and
Cops the drugs and leaves
Her brother lay upon the bed
With busted teeth and broken head
He hears the phone and he knows his brother’s dead
Thank you Louise, Mary Louise, mother of two
They said she was the pretty one
She’s pretty now, just watch her as she goes
Waiting for the bus to come,
She holds the hands of someone young
Whose mother comes and she sees her and she smiles
Thank you Louise, Mary Louise, mother of three
The supermarket, Christmas time
She eyes someone who doesn’t have the change
Takes a dollar from her purse
She pays and doesn’t say a word
She winks and grins and Merry Christmas, friend
Thank you Louise, Mary Louise, mother of three
It chills her daughter to the bone
She walks from work and
Cops the drugs and leaves
Her brother lay upon the bed
With busted teeth and broken head
He hears the phone and he knows his brother’s dead
Thank you Louise, Mary Louise, mother of two
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I'm not quite sure what this song is all about, but I really love listening to it. I love the whole middle stanza. Ryan Adams is a genius.
It seems like a fairly obvious song. basically, woman is really nice, doesn't really deserve bad stuff in her life. She has three kids and they go f**k up. One on drugs, one dies one is a bum or whatever, what a shame. It's a beautiful song though. I wish he hadn't cocked it up when I saw him live :(
This song is rumored to be about Mary Louise Parker (Fried Green Tomatoes, Weeds)