We just finished our dinner

and I'd gone in the den

and turned on the TV

when she walked in and kissed me.

And she said

Honey, I know it's late but if you don't minds,

my shopping gotten a little behind

so I think I'll drive downtown to the grocery store.

Well I didn't look up,

just nodded ok and asked her to hand me an ashtray.

And when she did I reached over and squeezed her hand,

and then she left and I shuttered a minute

at the thought of my world without her in it

and I ressuringly sought the touch of my wedding band.

Well I musta been dozing,

cuz I didn't hear the door

and I thought now that's strange,

I've never done that before.

But I looked up and she was standing by my chair, Kinda snucked in on me I said,

and she smiled and nodded her head

and I told her that she looked just like an angel standing there.

For a long moment she didn't say a thing

and then she caressed her gold wedding ring

and I thought I saw a teardrop in her eye.

Honey, you'll never know how much I love you she said,

and I thought of the many years that we had been wed.

As I Told her that no one could be as happy as I

and then the strangest feeling filled the room.

Not one of happiness but one of gloom and for the first time in my life,

I saw sadness in her face.

I reached out to touch her and she drew away and she told me again,

that ours was a love that time could never erase.

And then I thought I heard a thousand voices singing,

but I realized it was the telephone ringing.

And that's when I saw the halo surround her pretty golden hair.

I turned trembling to the reciever

and heard a cold voice say there had been a wreck out

on the highway and I knew that when I looked back,

she wouldn't be there

because it was an angels way of saying our last goodbye.