《Five Summers For Jimmy》歌词

[00:00:00] Five Summers For Jimmy - Tony Joe White

[00:00:16] She cleaned of the supper table and washed the dishes

[00:00:23] And went outside to catch the evening breeze

[00:00:30] The smell of sweet Magnolia still on the summernight

[00:00:37] And she hummed the song that set her mind at ease

[00:00:44] She closed her eyes and remembered another night like this

[00:00:52] It had been the sixteenth year of her life

[00:00:58] When the one she loved let sit

[00:01:01] With her on the poet's swing

[00:01:05] And told her he was going off to fight

[00:01:26] Five summers came in fail across her shoulders

[00:01:33] And the only news she heard was from her heart

[00:01:41] And all this time she kept on waiting

[00:01:48] Through the long hot summers

[00:01:49] And the cold nights of winter she waited

[00:01:55] And when about three weeks before

[00:01:57] That heard that the war was over

[00:02:02] And she still hadn't heard no news from him

[00:02:09] She never once let it 'cross her mind

[00:02:11] That he wouldn't be coming back to her

[00:02:16] And on this particular night

[00:02:17] That she sat there on the old poet's swing

[00:02:20] She suddenly got up

[00:02:23] And went around the south of the house

[00:02:25] And got some water out of the old rain barrel

[00:02:29] And she washed her hair

[00:02:30] And brushed it 'til it shined

[00:02:36] And went inside and put on her prettiest yellow dress

[00:02:42] And she waited by the window through the night

[00:02:50] The morning sun came shining through her restless dreams

[00:02:56] And she awoke to somebody whistling her favourit song

[00:03:04] And although he was walking slowly with a slight link

[00:03:11] She could tell that it was Jimmy and he was home