Eliza Jane

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Poor ol’ little Eliza Jane

Didn’t have the sense 

to get out of the rain

Her heartthrob

was Jimmy Bob

A boy so smart

he could keep a job

She smiled at him

an’ he turned red

Asked her to marry

and they did

Yes, somehow

they made their way

Pushin’ through day to day

Now Jimmy Bob

had an idea, he did

So Eliza Jane

had a couple of kids

It wasn’t easy 

they worked real hard

Rented a house

with a tree in the yard

She smiled at him

He smiled at her

and time moved on

like a colorful blur

Loving and laughing

Sadness and tears

They held each other

through the passing years

Then it came

one passed away

The other sat there

Nothing left to say

And so it goes

The circle of life

The common story

Of a man and a wife

Since the beginning

It goes on still

One after another

And it always will

La la, la la la, la la, la la

This is another one of those songs that just wrote itself. I played that “A, hammer on D” chord, and in just a few minutes it was all over. I played it for Donna and she cried when I got to that middle part, you’ll know when you read or hear it.) This truly is one of my favorites. Someone once wrote that it was amazing how I could take something so banal and put so much life and emotion into it. But isn’t that what it’s all about? Life is what we make of it.