Lillian & the Blue Car
Lillian & the Blue Car
© Copyright 2016

Contact Info:
Billy Kemp - 615-947-7183
billykempmusic@gmail.com

Release date: September 1, 2017

Composer: Billy Kemp
Publisher: Willbilly Music, BMI

She had two sisters
One was younger, one was older
She married Charlie
But war was coming and nobody told her

They had one year together
Of loving and no cares
Then Charlie went away
And never came back, to her

She never remarried
She took a job down by the shipyard
Binding books on a factory line, she was kind
And always worked hard

Younger sister had a baby
Older sister she did too
Lillian became Aunt Lil'
Not just one nephew, but two

She bought a row house in the county
Just across the city line
She kept a garden that brought her color
That made her feel a little bit fine

Went to church on every Sunday
The only time she'd drive her car
Took the bus to work each workday
She never went far, from home

In her Blue Car
In her Blue Car

She liked her hard candy, Rheb's Candy Store
Was just a half a mile away from her
She'd walk down there on Friday's, get a bag of sweets
And bring 'em on home with her

Watched her TV in the evenings
Sitting on her day bed
She ate so many sweets
She had every tooth pulled out of her head

She watched the nephews grow up
She had a drawer with sets of teeth that never fit just right
She kept her cash beneath her mattress
And on birthday cards she never spelled your name right

She gotta dog when she turned eighty
A little dog, Bebe, a shih tzu
They were always seen together
Walking down Elm Ridge avenue

She died when she turned eighty-two
And Bebe died the very next day after her
She was laid out at Witzke's Funeral Home
Her teeth they finally fit and Bebe was buried with her

Her home smelled of the old days
When I would visit her at Christmas time
I'm nephew number two
And now her blue car is mine
And now her blue car is mine