Emily Fool's Garden

Emily's going out tonight
With a candle in her pocket and
A lighter in her right hand
Does anybody know
Why she's gonna go?
She's nearly out of sight
Emily's out tonight

So familiar
How ladylike the old girl comes along
She's ninety something
Dressed up and wide awake
A little slow, but going strong
She's paid off the overdraft
For the TV she has bought in '84
She's been paying all her lifetime
But now she's gonna pay no more

Deep religious
She went to mass on every Sunday morning
She's believing
In God but she don't like
The priest (he's new in town, and very boring)
She's listened to his sermon well
Though she's heard the same one hundred times before
She's heard them all her lifetime
But now she's gonna listen anymore