Alice and Roy

Roy squeezed her hand Alice smiled at him

The senior club special is a lot food for them

They act like teenagers or the best of friends

With a hundred eighty years between the two of them

Back during the war at a wild country dance

He thought she'd ignore him but he took the chance

Fifteen songs later he still held her close

And a million dances since then hasn't been enough

They wear love like lighting

It's something to see

And the years of their true love

Sit up on their sleeves

Alice nudged Roy and points with her spoon

There sits two young lovers across the crowded room

You can tell by their look she says kind of giddy and flushed

Roy grinned wry and wicked and Alice smiled and blushed

They wear love like lighting

It's something to see

And the years of their true love

Sit up on their sleeves

Roy gets a little misty Alice pats his hand

He's thinking bout the boy they lost in Vietnam

And the girl he'd brought home and then left behind

And forty years later she still sends cards at Christmastime

They wear love like lighting

It's something to see

And the years of their true love

Sit up on their sleeves

Roy said remember Alice you almost burned your diary

All those poems and love letters I sent from overseas

And Alice says I couldn't even though I tried

And I don't suppose the children will really be surprised

Roy touched her face Alice smiled at him

Bowed their heads a moment and whispered Amen

If you look a little sideways I'm not sure what it means

I could swear it was an angel that passed her the cream

They wear love like lighting

It's something to see

And the years of their true love

Sit up on their sleeves

They wear love like lighting

It's something to see

And the years of their true love

Sit up on their sleeves

And the years of their true love

Sit up on their sleeves