The Ballad of Dolly Ollie

She kisses me and runs away

It always seems to end this way

As the little fella comes to stay

It always seems

To end this way.

She is the saddest girl in town

Her soul lies in the lost and found

She dreams of lying in the ground

Her soul lies in

The lost and found.

She helps out in her neighbourhood

And longs to be a force for good

Her heart is full, that’s understood,

She longs to be a force for good.

I give my harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake

Between her woods and frozen lake

I ask if there is

Some mistake.

I tell myself to stay away

She occupies my head each day

I’m holding on, she’s holding sway

She pummels on my heart

Every day.

Strangers who meet her had better beware

She’s all she has left now with nothing to spare

Lovers who long for her, better beware

Don’t get your hopes up she’s willing to share.

At first, I was hopeful, I dreamed of the chance

To embrace her completely, to forge a romance

She tangled me up in her cold-water dance

And left me distraught with no backwards glance.

Not one backwards glance.

She kisses me then stays away

I wish she would come out to play

And frame a truly joyous day

I wish she would come out

To play.