Old Jenny

The children taunt old Jenny they say you can't chew meat And you must eat your porridge you don't have any teeth They call her Gummy Jenny and then they run away And when she yells 'you go to hell' it only makes their day. But children will be children they still have much to learn And the difference between fun and harassment they have yet to discern By making Jenny angry such fun in that they see And if she did not react to them perhaps they'd leave her be She lives on retirement pension in need of every cent It's a struggle for her just to survive to buy food and pay rent One of the forgotten people one of the many who Deserve better in their old age respect is overdue. Condemned to suffer the jeers and taunts of every young blaghguard For all of the Jenny's of this World life must be very hard Some children have fun taunting her to cruelty they are blind Though many are far more aware and are not so unkind. Some children taunt old Jenny she shouts 'you go to hell' And they run off on down the street and laugh loud as she yell Condemned in her twilight years to suffer the ridicule Of naughty little rascals who have only started school.