On the first day of May I took to the road
I'd been staring out the window most of the morning
I'd watched the rain claw at the glass

And a vicious wind blew hard and fast
I should have taken it as a warning
As a warning As a warning

As a warning

I'd given my nurse the weekend off

My meals were ill prepared
My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb
And my piano crouched in the corner of my room

With all its teeth bared
All its teeth bared All its teeth bared
All its teeth bared.


Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah


I left my house without my coat
Something my nurse would not have allowed

And I took the small roads out of town
And I passed a cow and the cow was brown
And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud

Like a shroud Like a shroud
Like a shroud


There rose before me a little house
With all hope and dreams kept within
A woman's voice close to my ear

Said, "Why don't you come in here?"
"You looked soaked to the skin"
Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skin

Soaked to the skin

Hallelujah Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah





I turned to the woman and the woman was young

I extended a hearty salutation
But I knew if my nurse had been here
She would never in a thousand years

Permit me to accept that invitation
Invitation That invitation
That invitation


Now, you might think it wise to risk it all
Throw caution to the reckless wind

But with her hot cocoa and her medication
My nurse had been my one salvation
So I turned back home

I turned back home I turned back home
Singing my song


Hallelujah
The tears are welling in my eyes again
Hallelujah

I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
Hallelujah
And twenty pretty girls to carry

them down
Hallelujah
And twenty deep holes to bury them in

Hallelujah
The tears are welling in my eyes again
Hallelujah

I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
Hallelujah
And twenty pretty girls to carry them down

Hallelujah
And twenty deep holes to bury them in