Probably the best known work of the
Australian Acoustic musician Paul Kelly
To Her Door
They got
married early, never had
no money,
Then when he got laid off, they really
hit the skids,
He started up his
drinking, then they
started fighting,
He took it pretty badly, she took both the kids,
She said: "I'm not standing by, to
watch you slowly die,
So watch me walking, out the door,"
Out the door, out the door,
out the door.
to her, Shaking in his seat, Riding through the streets,
In a
silvertop, to her door,
to her door, to her door,
to her door.
She went to her brother's, got a little bar work,
He went to the
buttery, stayed about a year,
Then
he wrote a letter, said I want to see you,
She thought he sounded better, she sent him up the
fare,
He was riding through
the cane, in the
pouring rain,
On
Olympic, to her door.
He came in on a Sunday, every muscle aching,
Walking in slow motion, like he'd just been hit,
Did they have a
future? Would he know
his children?
Could he make a
picture and get them all to fit?
He was shaking in his seat, riding through the streets,
In a silvertop to her,
Shaking in his seat, riding through the streets,
In a silvertop
to her door.