Harry Chapin - Babysitter Lyrics
When I rearrange the pieces of the puzzle of my pastI sigh at the heartaches, relive the laughsAnd I think about the moments that have left their markAnd the too few faces that shine a little light in the darkIf you don't mind I'm gonna tell you a storyAnd I think that it won't bore youFor it's a tale that I've never toldTo anyone before you-- `cause it's for youThe sun of sixteen summers had put halos in your hairIf anything was in my head, twelve winters put it thereA dollar an hour is what Mama paid you to come and mind her kidsBut no one could really pay you enough for what you really didMany happy things keep happeningOn my journey through this worldAnd in many ways, that I will never understandI was much too lateTo be the first to make you a womanBut you were the oneWho made my mother's son a manYou know I used to read myself to sleep when I went to bedI guess I was a dreamer then who lived inside my headBut the nights that you came you talked of things, I found I had a friendYou brought my fears of people to a sure and gentle endMany happy things keep happeningOn my journey through this worldAnd in many ways, that I will never understandI was much too lateTo be the first to make you a womanBut you were the oneWho made my mother's son a manDo you remember the night when you turned out the lightAnd said to me: "Please hold me"I did not know which way to goSo I did just what you told me "Please hold me"When I think about you now it's not that my memory failsThere's just no need for graphic telling of all the detailsLet's just say yo
