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Ordinary mothers lead ordinary lives |
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Mop the floors and chop the parsley |
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Mend the clothes and tend the children |
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Ordinary mothers, like ordinary wives |
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Make the beds and bake the pies |
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And wither on the vine |
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Not mine |
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Dying by inches every night |
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What a glamorous life! |
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Pulled on by winches to recite |
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What a glamorous life! |
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Ordinary mothers never get the flowers |
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And ordinary mothers never know the joys |
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But ordinary mothers couldn't cough for hours |
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Maintaining their poise |
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Sandwiches only |
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But she eats what she wants, when she wants |
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Sometimes it’s lonely |
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But she meets many handsome gallants |
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Ordinary mothers don't live out of cases |
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But ordinary mothers don't go different places |
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Which ordinary mothers can’t do, being mothers all day |
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Mine's away in a play |
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And she's realer than they... |
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What if her brooch is only glass |
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And her costumes unravel? |
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What if her coach is second class? |
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She at least gets to travel |
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And sometime this summer, meaning soon |
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She'll be traveling to me |
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Sometime this summer, maybe June |
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I'm the new place she'll see |
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Ordinary daughters may think life is better |
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With ordinary mothers near them when they choose |
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But ordinary daughters seldom get a letter |
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Enclosing reviews |
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Gay and resilient with applause |
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What a glamorous life! |
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Speeches are brilliant if they're Shaw's |
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What a glamorous life! |
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Ordinary mothers needn’t meet committees |
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But ordinary mothers don’t get keys to cities |
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No, ordinary mothers merely see their children all year |
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Which is lovely, I hear |
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But it does interfere with the glamorous— |
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I am the princess, guarded by dragons |
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Snorting and grumbling and rumbling in wagons |
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She's in her kingdom, wearing disguises |
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Living a life that is full of surprises |
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And sometime this summer |
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She’ll come galloping over the green! |
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Sometime this summer |
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To the rescue, my mother the queen! |
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Ordinary mothers thrive on being private |
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But ordinary mothers somehow can survive it |
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And ordinary mothers never know they're just standing still |
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With the kettles to fill |
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While they're missing the thrill of the glamorous life! |
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