Tom T. Hall - Shoes and Dress That Alice Wore lyrics

Mhm I'm humming as I walk this
House and do my daily chores
When I put the broom away I
See the dress that Alice wore
It's hanging in the closet
Sadly sagging without form
Empty dress there in the closet held
A body soft and warm
Shoes and dress that Alice wore

It's the dress she wore the night
She caught me lying there beside
Some strange woman meaning nothing just some
Bones and hair and hide
I could npot explain it to her
And I cannot to this day
Now I stand here staring at the
Dress she wore to go away
Shoes and dress that Alice wore

And the shoes are red and shiny


And they're modest in the heel
And the dress a bad investment and
The color could be teal
She went screaming from the room where
I lay blinking in the nude
With the woman there beside me
Saying ain't this woman rude
Shoes and dress that Alice wore

So I asked the undertaker in
A private kind of way
Before you close the casket when
Our friends have gone away
If it's not too strange to reason
I would make one last request
Since it all goes in the ground I'd
Like to have the shoes and dress
Shoes and dress that Alice wore

So I'm humming as I walk this house
Mhmm mhm