Story Behind The Song

This song was inspired by memories of my childhood. Aunt Mary was inspired by different woman i new as a boy growing up in Queens, NY.

Song Description

A loving tribute to all the old ladies I new when I was a kid growing up in Queens, New York.

Lyrics

AUNT MARY

She drank whiskey sours,
Smoked pall malls or lucky strikes,
With a gray beehive,
Like dirty cotton candy stacked ten feet high-
Cigarette butts with lipstick stains,
In an ashtray were the remains,
Of her three pack a day devotion,
Next to a photo of her and Uncle Bob,
She loved to hug and kiss me
When I was just a little boy
Leaving her mark of fluorescent pink lipstick
A color only women her age wore-
Chorus 1:
Her face was round and scary
Her hands were cold and clammy
Aunt Mary
Her legs were thick and hairy
A face like Moe and Hair like Larry
Aunt Mary

She spent her days watching
Soap operas and variety shows
Eating coffee cake from the ?Entenmann?s? box
With her friends Big Betty and Silly Millie,
In a room thick with smoke,
Wearing their house coats,
With their nylons rolled down their chubby ankles,
They talked and laughed and coughed and wheezed,
Sometimes they?d wait on line for government cheese
Down at the senior Citizens? Center
Where they always dressed to impress and
Wore their teeth so they could smile-

Chorus 1:
Her face was round and scary
Her legs were thick and hairy
Aunt Mary
Her hands were cold and clammy
A face like Moe and Hair like Larry
Aunt Mary