Song Title: The Ballad of Aunt Beatie
Album: Soiree

Track Number: 3
Released: 1998
Credits: Recorded at Kinck Sound, Toronto, Ontario

composers: A.F.Willis/Rosalind Willis

Aunt Beatie was a sweetie, God bless her soul ..well over ninety and that’s not very old... for a spunky lady with a will to survive ...it might be just in my mind but she’s still alive 

Verse1: now she lived in a one bedroom house on a hill... just a quarter of a mile from my dad’s sawmill ....where she gathered scrap wood for the old Franklin stove ...every day she walked, to and from Butchers cove 

Verse 2: Many times she walked through our village each day... and when she heard town gossip she had nothing to say... there was a church in her front yard, and the Felthams next door and she did all her shopping at John Nobles store Chorus: Aunt Beatie was a sweetie... 

Verse 3: The axe and the bucksaw she used like a pro... to cut the firewood & keep out the cold.. she was ready for winter by late in the fall... there was a picture of Joey, on her kitchen wall 

Turnaround: 

Verse 4: now some man named Jack, came round one time.. for the rest of her life he stayed on her mind... but she lived all alone long before I was born ...I thought She’d be alive when we’re all dead and gone 

Verse 5: there’s a one bedroom house empty in Dover and her living alone days are all over she was with us for a century, and a month or so aunt Beatie was a sweetie God rest her soul 

Chorus: Aunt Beatie was a sweetie, God bless her soul... Aunt Beatie was a sweetie, God bless her soul well over ninety and that’s not very old for a spunky lady with a will to survive it might be just in my mind but she’s still alive 

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