Elderberry Wine lyrics

There's a fly in the window

A dog in the yard

And a year since I saw you

There's a trunk in the corner

I keep all my letters

My bills and demands I keep too

Well I can't help thinking

About the times

You were a wife of mine

You aimed to please me

Cooked black-eyed peas-me

Made elderberry wine

Drunk all the time

Feeling fine on elderberry wine

Those were the days

We'd lay in the haze

Forget depressive times

How can I ever get it together

Without a wife in line

To pick the crop and get me hot

On elderberry wine

Round a tee in the summer

A fire in the fall

Flat out when they couldn't stand

The bottle went round

Like a woman down south

Passed on from hand to hand

Well I can't help thinking

About the times

You were a wife of mine

You aimed to please me

Cooked black-eyed peas-me

Made elderberry wine

Drunk all the time

Feeling fine on elderberry wine

Those were the days

We'd lay in the haze

Forget depressive times

How can I ever get it together

Without a wife in line

To pick the crop and get me hot

On elderberry wine

Drunk all the time

Feeling fine on elderberry wine

Those were the days

We'd lay in the haze

Forget depressive times

How can I ever get it together

Without a wife in line

To pick the crop and get me hot

On elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

Elderberry wine

• Artist:Elton John
• Album:Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973)