Letras
On any southern afternoon
If anyone would care to look
A face appears inside a house
A terrible face, it is sexless and white
It is dim like the faces in dreams
It's Miss Amelia waiting by the window
Remembering the laughing in the café down below
Once Miss Amelia married a man
She married Marvin Macy, no one could understand
She must have done it for the presents
Cause she didn't like him much
And even on their wedding night she wouldn't let him touch
Well he hung around the doorways acting foolish with bliss
Until he came too close one day, she swung once with her fist
Miss Amelia was a strong woman, she was big and tall
Swung once and Marvin Macy, he fell against the wall
Now Miss Amelia is sitting by the shutters
Remembering the laughing in the café long ago
After Marvin Macy had long gone away
A little hunchback came to town, and this is strange to say
Miss Amelia who had never loved, she fell in love with him
He was a skipping little troublemaker and still she took him in
And so they lived together and were happy for a time
And everybody came around, they did drink and dine
Miss Amelia made a whiskey, it was fine and it was rare
It warmed a man into his soul, showed the writing there
Miss Amelia's story is simple and it's sad
Marvin Macy returned to town with all the evil that he had
The skipping little hunchback, he was quite impressed
With Marvin Macy's history of robbery and the rest
I will not get specific, just let it now be said
There was a terrible fight one night, Miss Amelia was ahead
Until the little hunchback jumped in on Marvin Macy's side
Everybody all agreed that's the night the café died
On any southern afternoon
If anyone would care to look
A face appears inside a house
A terrible face it is sexless and white
It is dim like the faces in dreams
It's Miss Amelia waiting by the window
Remembering the laughing in the café down below