Country Mouse

Lady Samantha arrives in her Rolls

The church bell twelve times doth toll

And Jeeves stops outside her stately home

Somewhere where wild animals roam

Jeeves dives to open the door

He’d been trained well before

Lady Samantha steps out

She’d been on the town and about

And into her Home she strolls

Leaving Jeeves to park the Rolls

She clambers up the winding stairs

To find her husband asleep in a chair

The time is right there’s no one around

So she creeps down the stairs making no sound

Her life is so empty without betrothed love

So she makes up by having a secret love

She opens the door so very cautiously

And into the dark night, unable to see

She runs to the back of the house

Quietly, as quiet as a country mouse

An owl hoot she hears three times

She answers back in tempo, in line

The time is so very right

Deep in the dead of the cold, dark night

Lady Samantha beckons her lover

Who’s hiding in the darkness cover

She calls him over from the corner

To come to where it is much warmer

Lady Samantha why do you do so wrong?

Why aren’t you where you really belong?

You don’t realise your husband cares

So your love you feel you must share

And through all your deceit

Your brains hang round your feet

Lady Samantha why do you do so wrong?

Why aren’t you where you really belong?

Lady Samantha is now dead and gone

But her legend lives on and on

For people on their spouses cheat

Isn’t the world full of enough deceit?

© Andrea Coltman