Old Linda

Old Linda is a tough old bird her moods are often black And she never leaves the chance go by for to bad mouth her husband Jack To anyone prepared to listen to her she will run him down As if she were the 'hardest done by' ever in the town. For forty years and that's a lengthy span they lived as man and wife And forty years is a decade more than half of the average human life Their marriage often stormy as they argued most of the time And their children now have teenage children and are well beyond their prime. Jack left her for a woman in her early fifties Linda is sixty five Yet forty years a long time for such a marriage to survive And though he left her a few years ago her bitterness towards him lives on Yet one would have thought she would have felt happy for to see him from her life gone. For Jack is far from special and he's not free of taint And anyone who know him well will tell you he's not a saint He had his women on the side and of his affairs she knew And any love between them had long died and to her he was untrue. The bitterness she feels towards Jack cause her to mistrust men But as long as she feels this way new admirers she won't win And to anyone prepared to listen to her Jack her unfaithful ex she will run down As if she were the hardest done by ever in the town.