Old Laughing Lady

Intro: Don't call pretty Peggy, She can't hear you no more Don't leave no message Round her back door They say the old laughing lady Been here before She don't keep time She don't count score You can't have a cupboard If there ain't no wall You got to move There's no time for you to stall They say the old laughing lady Dropped by to call And when she leaves She leaves nothing at all verse: (without the run through ) See the drunkard of the village Fallin' on his feet He can't tell his ankle From the rest of his feet He loves his old laughing lady Because the taste is so sweet But the laughin' lady's loving Ain't the kind he can keep There's a fever on the freeway Blacks out the night There's a slippin' on the stairway Just don't feel right There's a rumblin' in the bedroom And a flashin' of light There's the old laughing lady Everything is all right There's the old laughing lady Everything is all right notes: the quick change to at the end on many lines is omitted it occurs everywhere but 'if there ain't no wall / you got to move...' the run through from note is a familiar ny trick...