So She Waits

Eleanor Rigby was her name Daughter of a coal mining man Oh, he loved that freckle faced girl She was where his whole world began Her mother was long dead and gone A victim of this brutal life Her dad would say,"Soldier on, girl - One day you'll be a miner's wife!" That thought alone drove her to tears She'd marry well or not at all She formed a dream of silk and lace And thought of the debutante's ball And then one day the mine caved in All were lost in that darkest pit Her dream was all that she had left She worked at what was let of it Years passed as she bided her time The debutantes stood in their lines She waits at the window to see That man who knows nothing of mines. 9-5-19 Contest: Eleanor Rigby, Who Was She Sponsor: Jerry T Curtis