Oh Albert It's Alice

Oh, Albert its Alice I missed you today Many years since you went away You left me with orders To await your return Oh Albert its Alice We had so much to learn I remember that summer of 1913 The storm was coming, we had not seen The sun was shining upon our true love Do you remember that brooch, with the little white dove? We kissed on the Station, you had to go The train steamed you from me – rather too slow It let me see you drifting away Oh Albert its Alice, I missed you today The 4th of November 1917 My sisters’ baby had started to wean Your Vera told me you weren't coming home You had fallen in action, you weren't alone... ...there was Billy, Tommy and Freddie Jones From red brick houses, from coal heated homes Escaping the drudge of daily toil Back to Earth, back to the soil But Albert its Alice, I missed you today We kept our promise to always be true You to me and me to you I have kept my life on a single track Hoping that one day you’d make it back But Albert its Alice, that train never came Returning its passengers home safe again I'm lonely Albert, in this crowded room Everything’s whizzy, bangy and boom Things are so different since you left I'm in a home now “it’s for the best” Albert, oh Albert I need you today Albert its Alice, my looks have now gone We lost our daughter and lost our son I could not conceive without my true love But I've still got the brooch with the little White dove Oh, Albert its Alice, I’ll see you soon I still sing along to our favourite tune A lifetime of waiting, a lifetime of loss Oh, Albert its Alice, let’s not be cross Oh Albert, now, you’re waiting for me Remember the park? Remember our tree? It stands at the entrance of Executive Homes They can’t see our names from their mobile phones Oh, Albert its Alice, I missed you today I miss our home, where you lived with me I called our home ‘The Cherry Tree’ I say “our” home, you've always been there Oh, Albert you’re with me – you really did care Oh, Albert its Alice, my tears have been shed Lying alone in my cold single bed They put your name on a role of honour I was very thankful that they would even bother Oh, Albert if only they’d missed you that day So here I sit – waiting to go You all left before me, and I'm now rather slow My body is old, but my soul is still young But Albert Oh, Albert It was the war that we won Oh, Albert its Alice, I’ll join you today.