Old Aunt Eliza

Intro 
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As long as I remember Aunt Eliza was around 
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Walking by herself about the yard 
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Maybe sitting in the saddle room, staring at the floor 
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Where the dusty earth was beaten down so hard. 


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And her faded eyes looked past you, for they didn't seem to see 
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not of care about what happened today 
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Oh, the only that mattered was the time when she was young 
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And she didn't know that all had passed away 



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Old Aunt Eliza in your sun bonnet blue 
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And your long skirts of cotton so old fashioned too 
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A figure of fun to the heartless and the young 
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but you often made me sad, old Aunt Eliza. 



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Then one day I found her sitting in her quiet room 
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with a mirror and a lock of chestnut curls 
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She couldn't quite believe her hair so bonny now was grey 
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And the mirrored face no longer was a girls 


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So, she let her long hair down and I brushed it soft and fine 
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And she talked as though I wasn't even there 
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Of the parties and the ballrooms and the Bo's she had in line 
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Oh, the fairest of the fair, they called Eliza 

Interlude 
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So, I wondered just what happened in those days of long ago 
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To make her mind refuse to face the years 
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although Aunt Eliza would be ninety in the spring 
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oh, her memories were fresh enough for tears 



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I suppose I'll never know and perhaps its better so 
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but I wish I made a little time to spare 
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for a sad and lonely shadow left behind our busy lights 
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but perhaps old aunt Eliza didn't care 


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Old Aunt Eliza in your sun bonnet blue 
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And your long skirts of cotton so old fashioned too 
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A figure of fun to the heartless and the young 
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but you often made me sad, old Aunt Eliza.