Tony Joe White - Five Summers for Jimmy lyrics

She cleaned of the supper table and washed the dishes And went outside to catch the evening BReeze The smell of sweet magnolia still on the summernight And she hummed the song that set her mind at ease She closed her eyes and remembered another night like this It had been the sixteenth year of her life When the one she loved let sit with her on the poet's swing And told her he was going off to fight Five summers came in fail across her shoulders And the only news she heard was from her heart And all this time she kept on waiting Through the long hot summers And the cold nights of winter she waited And when about three weeks before That heard that the war was over And she still hadn't heard no news from him She never once let it cross her mind That he wouldn't be coming back to her And on this particular night That she sat there on the old poet's swing She suddenly got up And went around the south of the house And got some water out of the old rain barrel And she washed her hair And BRushed it 'til it shined And went inside and put on her prettiest yellow dress And she waited by the window through the night The morning sun came shining through her restless dreams And she awoke to somebody whistling her favourit song And although he was walking slowly with a slight limb She could tell that it was Jimmy and he was home