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


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

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


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