On the first day of May I took to the road  I'd been staring out the window most of the morning  I'd watched the rain claw at the glass  And a vicious wind blew hard and fast  I should have taken it as a warning  As a warning As a warning  As a warning     I'd given my nurse the weekend off  My meals were ill prepared  My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb  And my piano crouched in the corner of my room  With all its teeth bared  All its teeth bared All its teeth bared  All its teeth bared.    Hallelujah Hallelujah  Hallelujah Hallelujah    I left my house without my coat  Something my nurse would not have allowed  And I took the small roads out of town  And I passed a cow and the cow was brown  And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud  Like a shroud Like a shroud  Like a shroud     There rose before me a little house  With all hope and dreams kept within  A woman's voice close to my ear  Said, "Why don't you come in here?"  "You looked soaked to the skin"  Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skin  Soaked to the skin     Hallelujah Hallelujah  Hallelujah Hallelujah    I turned to the woman and the woman was young  I extended a hearty salutation  But I knew if my nurse had been here  She would never in a thousand years  Permit me to accept that invitation  Invitation That invitation  That invitation    Now, you might think it wise to risk it all  Throw caution to the reckless wind  But with her hot cocoa and her medication   My nurse had been my one salvation  So I turned back home   I turned back home I turned back home   Singing my song     Hallelujah  The tears are welling in my eyes again  Hallelujah  I need twenty big buckets to catch them in  Hallelujah  And twenty pretty girls to carry   them down  Hallelujah  And twenty deep holes to bury them in  Hallelujah  The tears are welling in my eyes again  Hallelujah  I need twenty big buckets to catch them in  Hallelujah  And twenty pretty girls to carry them down  Hallelujah  And twenty deep holes to bury them in