Hospital Lady - Loudon Wainwright III

The braid is held in with a bobby pin

She’s a woman, she wears a pink hat

The rouge on the face

Ihe bobble, the lace

Once a young girl

Please don’t forget that

The pretty red top

Just about stopped

It wobbled it don’t spin anymore

Reach for the sky

Against gravity try

Stay away from the cold wooden floor.

There was a time not so long ago

She was dancing with her favorite beau

Who died in 1953.

Consider her chart

There is dust on the heart

A thorn bush grows inside the spleen

Clouds on the eyes hide Al Jolsten blue skies

The lungs have turned bright kelly green

Old lady blues wears old lady shoes

Her new lover is old daddy death