koffl next back Author : Jan B. Hurych
Title : THE OLD COACH ROAD (4)




LUCY


You can meet her
on the boardwalk
she's so young and yet so old
hitchhiking her daily ride
hitchhiking for daily bread

once a beauty
teacher's pet
abandoned by highschool sweetheart
left in rain she run away
left in pain she run away

then she found
this little harbour
place to raise her little child
when the blessed moment comes
when the fearful moment comes

life is unfair
life's a bitch
for the single pregnant mother
has nobody, has no hope
she has not a single hope


in the fear and desperation
for the child to have a home
was the little girl darling
being sold
yes, being sold

but the nights are wet and cold
when somebody
loves somebody
memories won't go away
memories are here to stay

she starts walking
down the boardwalk
every day and every way
giving anything she has
giving only thing she has

you can meet her on the boardwalk
walking down and down again
heading for the river bend
where the stone will tell her story
story which will never end:

HERE RESTS LUCY
WHO LOST IT ALL:
her love
her child
her self.