The Spinster's Almanac-Christine Fellows

[ti:The Spinster's Almanac] [ar:Christine Fellows] [al:Nevertheless] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Spinster's Almanac - Christine Fellows [00:12.34]You're never far away from me [00:14.76]I've had this lock of your hair now [00:17.06]For a half a century or more [00:19.51]I keep it in a matchbox in the pocket of my coat [00:25.79]Saturdays I go to town just to make them laugh [00:30.33]I learned to drive when I was 65 years old [00:33.62]And I sit poker-straight behind the wheel [00:39.50]Mother died of influenza when we kids were small [00:43.86]Father never smiled again and seemed to shrink [00:47.23]With every passing year [00:50.26]Everybody sigh and put your hands on your hips [00:54.56]But when I get those old songs in my head [00:57.67]I can't keep my fingers off the keys [01:09.50] [01:13.88]Through my research I have found all it takes [01:17.01]To keep the chickens laying eggs [01:19.17]Is opera or Gershwin played at low volumes on dad's old radio [01:27.44]One concession for the hens destined for slaughter [01:31.91]I read them poetry [01:33.44]They like the Yeats the best [01:35.32]And frankly so do I [01:40.68]Who wouldn't like to wake up on the Isle of Innisfree [01:44.93]To muck about that bee-loud glade like he [01:49.34] [01:51.90]Everybody sigh and put your hands on your hips [01:56.26]What's good enough for chickens is plenty [01:59.07]Good enough for you and me [02:04.89] [02:16.01]You're never far away from me [02:19.97]I've had this lock of your hair now [02:24.02]For a half a century or more [02:28.34]I keep it in a matchbox in the pocket of my coat