Hallelujah
On the first day of May I took to the roadI'd been staring out the window most of the morningI'd watched the rain claw at the glassAnd a vicious wind blew hard and fastI should have taken it as a warningAs a warning As a warningAs a warningI'd given my nurse the weekend offMy meals were ill preparedMy typewriter had turned mute as a tombAnd my piano crouched in the corner of my roomWith all its teeth baredAll its teeth bared All its teeth baredAll its teeth bared.Hallelujah HallelujahHallelujah HallelujahI left my house without my coatSomething my nurse would not have allowedAnd I took the small roads out of townAnd I passed a cow and the cow was brownAnd my pyjamas clung to me like a shroudLike a shroud Like a shroudLike a shroudThere rose before me a little houseWith all hope and dreams kept withinA woman's voice close to my earSaid, "Why don't you come in here?""You looked soaked to the skin"Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skinSoaked to the skinHallelujah HallelujahHallelujah HallelujahI turned to the woman and the woman was youngI extended a hearty salutationBut I knew if my nurse had been hereShe would never in a thousand yearsPermit me to accept that invitationInvitation That invitationThat invitationNow, you might think it wise to risk it allThrow caution to the reckless windBut with her hot cocoa and her medicationMy nurse had been my one salvationSo I turned back homeI turned back home I turned back homeSinging my songHallelujahThe tears are welling in my eyes againHallelujahI need twenty big buckets to catch them inHallelujahAnd twenty pretty girls to carryThem downHallelujahAnd twenty deep holes to bury them inHallelujahThe tears are welling in my eyes againHallelujahI need twenty big buckets to catch them inHallelujahAnd twenty pretty girls to carry them downHallelujahAnd twenty deep holes to bury them in