From: Covenant@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: The Old Laughing Lady
Date: Tue Jul  5 00:21:00 1994

I know some of you may not like this, but you might find it interesting.
What the old lady is, it pretty much up to you, but I can't help but
get blown away everytime I hear this.





The Old Laughing Lady

Don't call pretty Peggy, she can't here you no more.
Don't leave no message, 'round her back door.
The say the Old Laughing Lady, has been here before.
She don't keep time, she don't count score.

You can't have a cupboard, if there ain't no wall.
You gotta move, there's no time left to stall.
They say the Old Laughing Lady, dropped by to call.
When she leaves, she leaves nothing at all.

See the drunkard of the village, falling on the street.
Can't tell his ankles, from the rest of his feet.
He loves his Old Laughing Lady, 'cause her taste is so sweet.
But the Laughing Lady's loving, ain't the kind he can keep.

There's a fever on the freeway, blacks out the night.
There's a slipping on the stairway, just don't feel right.
And there's a rumbling in the bedroom, and a flashing of light.
There's the Old Laughing Lady, everything is alright.



The Old Laughing Lady  --  by Neil Young