Tea lady Miss Maisy

As I go Late at night stupid

Miss Maisy ran the pink tea room
It was out in the outer west dryest suburbs
Not quite the sticks
But I can tell ya you city slickers
Never came
To miss maisys pink tea room

The word got around
Through all the town
That miss maisy
Had a beau
He’s handsome too
Said melva eating double
Slice of chocolate cake
All sliding halfway down her prim and
Proper face

Really said her friend of twenty years
I thought miss maisy rather plain
I dont know what he sees in her
I’d give him one of my you know what fors
She said to melva arranging her yellow
Tinted hair like some spring has sprung old
Buttercup

Well I do declare it’s him right there
Said the two in unison too
Oh he’s a catch but what a match
I’m afraid it’s just not fair and
Will not do
There’s just no eligible men around
With a full head o’hair around these days
In this lonely outback town
So dusty you could choke on its
Dust right there
Said Melva with her Horty torty air

I know said her friend of twenty years
Let’s go. Closer give him a good look
Up and down see if he has the get up and
Go
To keep that miss maisy happy
old maid miss Maisy sook

So off they went and sat at the booth
Right next to him
He tipped his hat
Said hello ladies then gulped his tea
Right down and said aloud as he pulled out
His chair
Would you two be the towns
Ladies to show a man around the town
I’m here for a week and not a soul
Do I know
Except my brother sitting over there
There they looked and who but maisy
Could they see
With her beau
That’s his twin brother it must be

So Melva and her friend of twenty
Years
Showed the stranger in town
All around the dusty streets
Up that avenue into pubs on corner
For ice cold beers
To
Post office and this n that
And when the time was nigh to bid
Goodbye
The man walked away
And disappeared into thin
Hot air up some long forgotten
dusty road
Heading north
So there alone they stood
‘‘Twas Melva and her friend of
Twenty years
They had met the famous twin ghosts
Of that towns earlier gold rush years
They ran back to Miss Maisy s pink tea room
And all they saw was a skyscraper
With a revolving restaurant on top

I told ya Melva fifty times not to
Wish to travel in time
Well never meet mr right
With his full head o hair
This way
Let’s go back to our own time now
So they closed their eyes
Said their magic wish
And woosh
They landed in miss Maisie’s pink tea room
This time they were happy to be back
Sipping tea and eating cake
And chatting about this n that
No need to find a man they
Thought
No man in this town
Has enough real hair anyways
And they were a dinki Di pair of
B*****s anyhow !
What man would want
You anyhow said Melva to her
Friend of twenty years

Just then they saw miss Maisy running out the
Door
It seems she was stuck in a time warp too
She disappeared without even a bade goodbye
Never to ever reappear
And Melva and her friend of twenty years
Ran miss maisys pink tea room
Till they sold it to live out their golden
Buttercup years
So that’s the story of Miss Maisy s pink tea room
It still stands here
With a dusty old broom out front
And
Melva and her friend of twenty years
Have long since gone
From this dusty town

To live out their golden olden
yellow buttercup years

Reviews

[barleygirl]

What a brilliant blend of imagination, playfulness, & original storytelling! I am so envious of writers who can tap into such a colorful stream of inventive ideas! I was transfixed from beginning to end, always curious as to how this was going to play out! It's almost like watching kabuki theatre! *smile* Fondly, Margie

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Great time-traveling tall tale Julie! The colorful, snappy language, rhythm and ballad of miss Maisys pink tea room mesmerized me all the way through. What a fantastic story of Melva, her friend and the ghost twins!! Where do you get your imagination my friend?! Absolutely love this and think it would make a great song. Brava!

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Wow thanks
For your lovely review

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Plz ignore grammar wrote at eleven pm will fix tonight