(Matraca Berg&Gary Harrison)



At nine o'clock each morning down on Charlotte Avenue

The bus driver stops and lets her off

Before the first shampoo

Alice started working there when she was just a girl

And now she mans the second chair

At Thelma's Cut and Curl



A trim is just ten dollars and the conversation's free

She recreates the latest styles of 1963

With a lipstick-circled cigarette constantly aflame

She greets all her clientele

By first and middle names



And even though that mirror paints a picture much too clear

She'll mix you up some magic and she'll dye away the years

And, oh, they come and go so fast