elderberry wine

Lyrics

there's a fly in the window, a dog in the yard, and a year since i saw you, there's a trunk in the corner, i keep all my letters, my bills and demands i keep too, well i can't help thinking, about the times, you were a wife of mine, you aimed to please me, cooked black-eyed peas-me, made elderberry wine, drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine, those were the days, we'd lay in the haze, forget depressive times, how can i ever get it together, without a wife in line, to pick the crop and get me hot, on elderberry wine, round a tree in the summer, a fire in the fall, flat out when they couldn't stand, the bottle went round, like a woman down south, passed on from hand to hand