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[00:48.319]Ordinary mothers lead ordinary lives
[00:53.185]Mop the floors and chop the parsley
[00:55.702]Mend the clothes and tend the children
[00:58.270]Ordinary mothers, like ordinary wives
[01:03.241]Make the beds and bake the pies
[01:05.335]And wither on the vine
[01:09.073]Not mine
[01:15.315]Dying by inches every night
[01:18.698]What a glamorous life!
[01:22.636]Pulled on by winches to recite
[01:25.522]What a glamorous life!
[01:29.693]Ordinary mothers never get the flowers
[01:32.735]And ordinary mothers never know the joys
[01:36.341]But ordinary mothers couldn't cough for hours
[01:39.764]Maintaining their poise
[01:47.081]Sandwiches only
[01:49.152]But she eats what she wants, when she wants
[01:53.860]Sometimes it’s lonely
[01:56.438]But she meets many handsome gallants
[02:01.288]Ordinary mothers don't live out of cases
[02:04.413]But ordinary mothers don't go different places
[02:08.027]Which ordinary mothers can’t do, being mothers all day
[02:13.979]Mine's away in a play
[02:17.307]And she's realer than they...
[02:22.448]What if her brooch is only glass
[02:25.439]And her costumes unravel?
[02:29.100]What if her coach is second class?
[02:32.555]She at least gets to travel
[02:36.434]And sometime this summer, meaning soon
[02:40.290]She'll be traveling to me
[02:44.130]Sometime this summer, maybe June
[02:47.345]I'm the new place she'll see
[02:51.370]Ordinary daughters may think life is better
[02:54.500]With ordinary mothers near them when they choose
[02:57.878]But ordinary daughters seldom get a letter
[03:01.225]Enclosing reviews
[03:04.165]Gay and resilient with applause
[03:07.119]What a glamorous life!
[03:10.956]Speeches are brilliant if they're Shaw's
[03:14.158]What a glamorous life!
[03:17.710]Ordinary mothers needn’t meet committees
[03:20.811]But ordinary mothers don’t get keys to cities
[03:24.193]No, ordinary mothers merely see their children all year
[03:30.065]Which is lovely, I hear
[03:33.595]But it does interfere with the glamorous—
[03:41.857]I am the princess, guarded by dragons
[03:45.187]Snorting and grumbling and rumbling in wagons
[03:49.481]She's in her kingdom, wearing disguises
[03:53.223]Living a life that is full of surprises
[03:58.082]And sometime this summer
[04:00.479]She’ll come galloping over the green!
[04:05.366]Sometime this summer
[04:07.571]To the rescue, my mother the queen!
[04:12.483]Ordinary mothers thrive on being private
[04:15.544]But ordinary mothers somehow can survive it
[04:18.977]And ordinary mothers never know they're just standing still
[04:24.533]With the kettles to fill
[04:27.778]While they're missing the thrill of the glamorous life!