The Request Book

Ella and Jack

Oh to my dear husband Jack

I dearly hope I'll be returning back.

Our love has lasted for years

And we have both dried one another's tears.

But I fear they haven't said

That my dear deepest love in this life's dead.

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For here I wait for my Jack

Think of him wonderng if he's still sick

I lie in hospital clothes

Knowing he'll worry for me if he knows

Anything other than him

Visitors talk about, each to their whim.

**

Oh, oh my dear husband Jack

I long for anniversary days past

I wish that we were at rest

Celebrating our own togetherness

Everything festive at hand

For our love and for our happiness grand.

**

Jack I would call if somehow

You could come see me here in this place now

Where one bird perches nearby

Outside my window He's not a rare type

But yet he is ever sweet

And he won't ever leave me.

**

And Jack would you know it but

Outside my windows I can see a hut

That shields a train and I thought

You loved to look at trains so often that

I wonder if that's the one

Missing one that kept your search going on.