East Enders Wives

Corrections from lyric booklet. The line and stanza scheme is makeshift as the lyric booklet just has all the lines together in one big paragraph.

We met by chance along the Roe River side our salt fire danced as our tea leaves dried she hatched our plans in the atmospheric tides

Fortune Teller: Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent" Rabbit: Eh, that joke's long since been spent!"

But as the Fool on the bagpipes played we kept cool in the parasol shade your thumb on my page at my tender age east enders wives Then hidden in the boxthorn vine We grew old as the foxtail pine sheep in the fold gilding our gold sipping our milk and water lives she packed our bags some arbitrary time (by the time he wakes up I'll be gone) then waved like a flag from the White Star Line (Queensland our next stop, he'll be gone) unmoored unwell though I seldom elegize (you still see who I once was) we've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary And as the past and our plans are undone, slowly sank like the shipwrecked sun bridges and boats burning them both burned up the sky

choir sang as the Black Birch fell sorrow rang like a church yard bell an axe to the trees smoke for the bees all our dads died.