Alice And Roy - Carrie Newcomer

Roy squeezed her hand Alice smiled at him

The senior club special is a lot food for them

They act like teenagers or the best of friends

With one hundred-eighty years between the two of them

Back during the war at a wild country-dance

He thought she’d ignore him but he took the chance

Fifteen songs later he still held her close

And a million dances since then hasn’t been enough

They wear love like lighting

It’s something to see

And the years of their true love

Sits up on their sleeves

Alice nudged Roy and points with her spoon

There sits two young lovers across the crowded room

You can tell by their look she say’s kind of giddy and flushed

Roy grinned wry and wicked and Alice smiled and blushed

They wear love like lighting

It’s something to see

And the years of their true love

Sits up on their sleeves

Roy gets a little misty Alice pats his hand

He’s thinking bout the boy they lost in Vietnam

And the girl he’d brought home, and then left behind

And 40 years later she still sends cards at Christmastime

They wear love like lighting

It’s something to see

And the years of their true love

Sits up on their sleeves

Roy said, «Remember Alice you almost burned your diary

All those poems and love letters I sent from overseas

Alice says» I couldn’t, even though I tried

And I suppose the children will really be surprised."

They wear love like lighting

It’s something to see

And the years of their true love

Sits up on their sleeves

Roy touched her face, Alice smiles at him

Bowed her heads a moment and whispered «Amen»

If you look a little sideways, I’m not sure what it means

II swear it was an angel, that passed her the cream