This next little bit is for the ladies, For Molly's the Dolly's and the Sadie's For the Mississippi to the old Euphrates If you long for shoes and rice may I offer this advice? Ten good years, ten good years Like it or not all a women has got is ten good years When there aren't any wrinkles and there isn't any spread When you're blooming like a flower every hour on the hour Just like Tommy Manvel said You better get your man, while the getting is good You better light that fire While you still got wood or your dead, yes you're dead Ten good years, ten good years Girl aren't Craggy, Haggy or Shaggy Ten good years, just ten good years The first year you can afford to be particular The standard you set are very high The second year your nose though perpendicular It's not exactly pointed at the sky The third year your mother begins to hint a bit She raves about your sisters darling kids The Fourth year thru The seventh you're gathering lint a bit Then comes the eight you're nearly on the skids The ninth year you go to Acapulco And have a thing with a dentist, You think you're going to have a happy life The ninth and a half year You go to the mail box and get a note from the dentist It's not a bill; he's going back to his wife ahha, ahha……. The tenth year arrives, the panic sets in You're thirty one married your not So you fix your hair and maybe your chin And suddenly look what you got, look what you got Ten good years, ten more good years Big game or small game You're back in the ball game it appears Now honey I give you odds like eight to five As long as you are breathing as long as you're alive Put on your powder and throw away your fears You've got ten, all you got to do is be sure you count them real slow Ten you got a lot more if you got the right connections. Ten now Marlene Deitrick is not exactly chopped liver Ten good years