Lyrics

Mildred, mildred, how I love you so Remember the joke you told me While we had our midnight tea That was the funniest joke I ever heard in my life I didn't tell you then 'cause I was drinking the tea Alfred, now alfred, you used to call me so And told me how it would be nice to open a plant shop That was the most sensible idea we had in our life I didn't tell you then 'cause I was reading the papers Mildred, oh, mildred, how I love you so Remember how you were angry when I talked to the box You kept trying to tell me something, something about your life But I didn't hear you then 'cause I was watching the box I bought a pot of plant now And I'm watering it ev'ry day I watched the late night talk show And asked the man in a suit Why he was laughing so when my wife was dead He didn't reply No, he didn't reply at all And I burnt the box the next morning And buried in our garden Mildred, oh, mildred, how I miss you so How I wish to tell you a lot of things about our life But of course you aren't around, you aren't around no more And I hear the box still laughing in the next door apartment