Mildred, mildred, how i love you so,

Remember the joke you told me

While we had our midnight tea.

That was the funniest joke i ever heard in my life,

I didn't tell you then 'cause i was drinking the tea.



Alfred, now alfred, you used to call me so.

And told me how it would be nice to open a plant shop.

That was the most sensible idea we had in our life,

I didn't tell you then 'cause i was reading the papers.



Mildred, oh, mildred, how i love you so,

Remember how you were angry when i talked to the box.

You kept trying to tell me something, something about your life,

But i didn't hear you then 'cause i was watching the box.



I bought a pot of plant now

And i'm watering it ev'ry day.

I watched the late night talk show

And asked the man in a suit

Why he was laughing so when my wife was dead.



He didn't reply,

No, he didn't reply at all.

And i burnt the box the next morning

And buried in our garden.



Mildred, oh, mildred, how i miss you so,

How i wish to tell you a lot of things about our life.

But of course you aren't around, you aren't around no more

And i hear the box still laughing in the next door apartment.


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