Mildred, Mildred Lyrics - Yoko Ono

Mildred, mildred, how I love you so, 

Remember the joke you told me 

While we had our midnight tea. 

That was the funniest joke I ever heard in my life, 

I didn't tell you then 'cause I was drinking the tea. 

Alfred, now alfred, you used to call me so. 

And told me how it would be nice to open a plant shop. 

That was the most sensible idea we had in our life, 

I didn't tell you then 'cause I was reading the papers. 

Mildred, oh, mildred, how I love you so, 

Remember how you were angry when I talked to the box. 

You kept trying to tell me something, something about your life, 

But I didn't hear you then 'cause I was watching the box. 

I bought a pot of plant now 

And I'm watering it ev'ry day. 

I watched the late night talk show 

And asked the man in a suit 

Why he was laughing so when my wife was dead. 

He didn't reply, 

No, he didn't reply at all. 

And I burnt the box the next morning 

And buried in our garden. 

Mildred, oh, mildred, how I miss you so, 

How I wish to tell you a lot of things about our life. 

But of course you aren't around, you aren't around no more 

And I hear the box still laughing in the next door apartment.