Harry Chapin - My Old Lady Lyrics
She wore an S.E.G. when she came back homeLike the cat that ate the canaryAnd I stood befuddled, a chauvanist studWith his mistress quite contraryI was smack up against the momentI was afraid i would face somedayBut the truth is a wall that you can't blow downAnd it won't be laughed awayYou see, my old lady went and took herselfA young man last nightIt got me crazy when she said,"Baby, don't you get uptight,I think maybe it's the time for you to see the light,"She said, "It's alright now, boy, I'm yours tonight."Now I admit my imagination's beenThe sweetest sinner of allYes it lives like a snake in EdenAnd it forgives each time I fallSo I've been CasanovaI've double-dated with Don JuanAnd though I've been doing almost everythingI never dreamed she'd be carrying on!You see, my old lady went and took herselfA young man last nightIt got me crazy when she said,"Baby, don't you get uptight,I think maybe it's the time for you to see the light,"She said, "It's alright now, boy, I'm yours tonight."She says that she still loves meShe says that last night was no big dealShe says, "Why can't a woman play the same damn gameAnd act out what she feels?"She says she's going to take a bathI hear her singing in the tub upstairsWhile I'm sitting here spitting out chunks of my heartForced into being fair,While she's splashing rround up there,I'm supposed to act like I don't care,I hear the devil laughing somewhere!You see, my old lady went and took herselfA young man last nightIt got me crazy when she said,"Baby, don't you get uptight,-a
