Lyr Req: Winifer Odd (Lal Waterson)

Subject: Lyric Req Winifer Odd Lal Waterson
From: GUEST,dex
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 10:55 PM

Hello
I'm wondering if anyone has the entire lyrics for Winifer Odd by Lal Waterson?
Thank you!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winifer Odd (Lal Waterson)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 08:43 PM

Maddy Prior sings WINIFER ODD on the various-artists album "Shining Bright: Songs of Mike & Lal Waterson," (2002). This is what I heard in a sample at Allmusic.com:

...She fell in love with a boy of seventeen years old
At the age of ninety-four
And she waited all that fall for him
To grow tall and slim
But he was fat and small....

Subject: Lyr Add: WINIFER ODD (Lal Waterson)
From: Reinhard
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 06:49 AM

Winifer Odd
Was born on one cold May morning in June
In her grandmother's bedroom
And they waited all that day for last May to come back again,
But it never came.

Going to school:
The teachers all agreed that she was nobody's fool,
In fact she was brighter than most.
And they waited for the card from the board to gain her degree,
But it was lost in the post.

Falling in love:
She fell in love with a boy of seventeen years old,
At the age of thirty-four.
And she waited all that fall for him to grow tall and slim,
But he was fat and small.

Waiting for God:
She bent down to pick up a glittering thing and was knocked over by a car.
It was her lucky star.
And she waited for Death to come and wrap her up warm,
But he never came.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winifer Odd (Lal Waterson)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 07:29 AM

Just been listening to this, and I love it. Reminds me somewhat of Eleanor Rigby, sentiment wise.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winifer Odd (Lal Waterson)
From: GUEST,dex
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 07:54 PM

thank you so much for this :)