Thank You Louise - Ryan Adams

Everyone, when she was young

They said she was the pretty one

She’s pretty enough, just watch her as she goes

Waiting for the birds to come

She holds the hands of someone young

Whose mother comes and she sees her and she smiles

Thank you Louise

Mary Louise

Mother of three

Waiting in the check-out line

The supermarket, Christmas time

She eyes someone who doesn’t have the change

Takes a dollar from her purse

She pays and doesn’t says a word

And winks and grins, 'A Merry Christmas, friend'

Thank you Louise

Mary Louise

Mother of three

In Baltimore the freezing cold

That chills her darling to the bone

She walks from work and cops the drugs and leaves

Her brother lay upon the bed

With busted teeth and broken head

He hears the phone and he knows his brother’s dead

Thank you Louise

Mary Louise

Mother of two