"They Never Met" Lyrics

The boy was almost, forty eight years old,
All he'd ever gone to bed with, was a cold,
An he said to his mama, mama I'm afraid it's true,
Only woman that could love me, is you,
The girl could almost drink her age an be it,
Couple cases, give or take a year,
She worked at the hospital, hey lot's of people do,
An that's where they fell in love, oh God I wish that that was true,
But they never met, not even briefly,
I know what you thought, you thought that they might,
Now what was the problem, the problem was chiefly,
She worked the day shift, and he worked the night,
They never met, not even informally,
I know that you thought things like this work out right,
No no, they never met, not even abnormally,
She worked the day shift, and he worked the night,
An now the boy is almost fifty nine,ya ask him how's it goin Frank,
An he says fine,
An what's become of mama, well mama's in a better place,
An he points his finger right straight out in space,
The girl is finally chief admitting nurse,
Considering what she had for brains,it could be worse,
She could've been a victim of the dreaded Asian flu,
She could've had to live with you know who,
They never met, not even briefly,
I know what you thought, you thought that they might,
Now what was the problem, the problem was chiefly,
She worked the day shift, and he worked the night,
An now the boy has gone to meet his mom,
Natural causes, the bottle, not the bomb,
They found him in the dining room, his face was in a stew,
They dressed him in a suit, of shiny blue,
An that same year the girl gave up the ghost,
The minister said she'd be missed the most,
Her patients cried a tear recalling how she'd signed the cast,
The nurses said she'd find a man last,
But they never met, not even briefly,
I know what you thought, you thought that they might,
Now what was the problem, the problem was chiefly,
She worked the day shift, and he worked the night,
They never met,not even in spirit,
I know you thought things like this work out right,
No no, she went to heaven, and he's nowhere near it,
She works the day shift, and he works the night.