<div ="verse">There's a fly in the window
A dog in the yard
And
a year since I saw you
There's a trunk in the corner
I keep all
my letters
My bills and demands I keep too
<div ="verse">Well
I can't help thinking
About the times
You were a wife of mine
You
aimed to please me
Cooked black-eyed peas me
Made elderberry wine
<div ="verse">Drunk all the time
Feeling fine on elderberry wine
Those
were the days
We'd lay in the haze
Forget depressive times
How
can I ever get it together
Without a wife in line
To pick the
crop and get me hot
On elderberry wine
<div ="verse">Round a
tree in the summer
A fire in the fall
Flat out when they couldn't
stand
The bottle went round
Like a woman down south
Passed on
from hand to hand