Nina Jo Smith - Visiting Day

Visiting Day
Words & Music by Nina Jo Smith (BMI)
© 2023 Redwood River Music (BMI)

Running my comb from the Fuller Brush Man
slowly through my hair
Fix my eyeliner in the middle of the mirror
the only part that’s clear
A girl steps out from
the stall behind
I touch up my lipstick
She catches my eye

Waiting for our trains to be called
on the South Pacific Line

I left the baby with my mom
and put my best dress on
Gonna get on that train and ride away
will he think I look pretty on visiting day?

Me and the baby in Mom’s garage out back
with a hot plate and a sink
Movie stars in shiny magazines
wear their diamonds and mink
Union Station 1969
Boys coming home from the war
Us girls in this restroom
away from their eyes

Waiting for our trains to be called
On the South Pacific Line

I left the baby with my mom
and put my best dress on
Gonna get on that train and ride away
Will he think I look pretty on visiting day?

I just want to see in his eyes
I’m pretty as the first day we met
When he came into my drugstore for supplies
then he took me out back
for a quickie and a menthol cigarette

Union Station, 1969
We’re no relation, we’re just passing time
We came in as strangers
We left the same way
She said I look pretty
on visiting day.

I sure hope I look pretty
on visiting day.