Netta and Albert Lansbury. Wedding Photo. 1943. Copyright Angela Lansbury.
I had a short but happy wife
She always did her best for me
I had a lot of cups of tea
I had a lot of holidays
You like home when you've been away
I never had the I'm bored blues
I watered plants, mended old shoes
Every day I went out walking
I'm deaf, my wife did the talking
I got too tired to go to town
So I played bridge, actively, sitting down
All lives endure some sun, some rain
I think of sun and don't complain
I wish that I had died at home
I'm sorry to leave you alone
Others complain their life was tough
'though mine was good, I've had enough
If one's life is like a train
No need to do it all again
I don't want reincarnation
My train's reached its destination
Live in or let or sell my home
I won't know what's on my tombstone
I watched my diet, took my pills
A month is too long to be ill
I've done the washing, paid the bills
And everything is in my will
I've told you eveything I know
And so it's time to let me go
I had a short but happy wife
I had a long and happy life.
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Sums up what my father said in hospital. A practical man. Opthalmic optician. Born 1912. Died 2005.
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