Nettie, no need to cry   Let me wipe those tear drops from your eyes      In the dark bathed in Cathode ray blue   Miss Red Hook of 1922   Weeping silently for the pain of others   Every night a tearful rosary   A victim of the curse of empathy   Her reward for compassion is to suffer      Nettie, no need to cry   Let me wipe those tear drops from your eyes      My shortcomings I know caused her grief   Still she loves me. This I can't believe!   Responding not with anger but a prayer   Heaven's just Southwest of Cobble Hill   True, I am the son of an angel   Maternally, not one woman compares      Nettie, no need to cry   Let me wipe those tear drops from your eyes      If you fall, I will catch you   When you're lost, I'll be there soon   Far away, but of course near   When you're sad, I'm always here      Thank you for saving me from myself   Your compassion became its own hell   Unequivocably beautiful inside and out   Without a doubt      Nettie, no need to cry   Let me wipe those tear drops from your eyes