Alice and Roy Songtext
von Carrie Newcomer

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