Ladies

Ladies of leisure with their eyes on the back roads
All looking for strangers to whom they extend welcomes
With a smile and a glimpse of pink knees and elbows
Of satin and velvet - good ladies, good fortune

Ladies, ladies
Ladies, ladies

They sing of their heroes, of solitary soldiers
Invested in good health and manner most charming
Whose favors are numbered, none the less, well intended
By hours in a minute, by those ladies who bless them

Ladies, ladies