My Friend The Chocolate Cake – Nanny's Farewell lyrics

Flint eyed nanny with her old white face,
One old hand in her pocket keeping warm,
Her ears all shriveled hide beneath her scar,
and she's waving goodbye to me.

For I'm gone, I'm gone across the sea
Away from the family.

One tear dripping but the others staying proud.
She shakes her crooked fingers
Always as she tells a last wise tale
listen to the stories that the old and worn gang tell,
they're the stories that we must keep passing on.

For I'm gone, I'm gone across the sea
Away from the family.

She grabs my elbow, then we dance out loud.
She looks into my face twice over and she smiles into my eyes,
and then we both start singing. Christ we both sing bad.
She's singing goodbye to me.

For I'm gone, I'm gone across the sea
Away from the family.

She says now don't expect me to be here when you return,
My mind is getting leaky and my bunions getting sore,
Kepp on searching 'til you cannot search no more,
and then she turns her back on me.

For I'm gone, I'm gone across the sea
Away from the family.