My Deepest Sympathy

"based on a true story"

In my early days of posting

A postie new and shy.

I make the biggest ever gaff

And here's the reason why.

Old Ada was so popular

I'd been posting cards all week.

She must have been a well liked lady

The coolest on the street.

Ada was a customer 

I thought was ultra cool.

Having posted 90 birthday cards

She made me feel a fool.

I said to Ada here you are

Happy birthday to you dear.

She said she would be happier

If my dearest Fred was here.

It seems the cards of sympathy

Were all for poor old Fred.

How the heck was i to know

That poor old Fred was dead.