Senior Citizens' Song
By: Joe Ryan, 2001

Here's to all the seniors up to the Elizabeth Home.
They got their own apartment they call their very own.
Now they are there by night and day.
They wouldn't be there if they had to pay.
Now the watch is coming on.
They come to see how you're getting on.
The nurse said "I'll be back". That's what she said.
"I'll be back – back to make up the bed".

"Now I'm back to make up all of those beds.
I'll soon have them done."
Making those beds sure is no fun.
But now it's time to have your bath.
The nurses will tell you what their going at.
They will wash and dry you too.
They will dress you up. That is good enough.
Some are cooking and some are washing to,
they are doing the wash for me and you.
When they are all done, they will bring them back to you.
They will store them away,
so you know where they are for your bath the next day.

But now it's dinner time.
They all walk in line.
You go up to the dining room and then sit down.
You just got to wait.
The nurses will bring you dinner right on the plate.
When you're done, you go back to your room called
Elizabeth Home.
But now it's night, we'll play cards late at night.
You get your pills and mug up right on sight.
When the cards is over, you go back to your room.
You must go. Some are fast and some are slow.
The nurses will undress you and put you to bed.
She'll say "Good night, I'll be watching you through the night.

If anything goes wrong, I'll send for the ambulance and we'll put you on."
Then you call Mrs. Dinn and she'll fix up everything.
She'll give you a note to the driver and to the Health Science
will go,
and the Health Science it's overflow.
They'll take you in to have your x-rays to see if anything is wrong.
They will keep you in there until you get strong.
When you gets better, they send you back home
to the place you call Elizabeth Home.
But they will be there until you're dead and gone.
And Elizabeth Home will carry on.