Lyrics
Ordinary mothers lead ordinary lives
Keep the house and sweep the parlor
Mend the clothes and tend the children
Ordinary mothers, like ordinary wives
Make the beds and bake the pies
And wither on the vine
Not mine
Dying by inches every night
What a glamorous life!
Pulled on by winches to recite
What a glamorous life!
Ordinary mothers never get the flowers
And ordinary mothers never get the joys
Ordinary mothers couldn't cough for hours
Maintaining their poise
Sandwiches only
But she eats what she wants when she wants!
Sometimes it's lonely
But she meets many handsome gallants!
Ordinary mothers don't live out of cases
But ordinary mothers don't go different places
Which ordinary mothers can't do, being mothers all day
Mine's away in a play
And she's realer than they
What if her brooch is only glass?
And her costumes unravel?
What if her coach is second-class?
She at least gets to travel!
And sometime this summer meaning soon
She'll be traveling to me!
Sometime this summer, maybe June
I'm the new place she'll see!
Ordinary daughters may think life is better
With ordinary mothers near them when they choose
But ordinary daughters seldom get a letter enclosing reviews
Gay and resilient, with applause
What a glamorous life!
Speeches are brilliant, if they're Shaw's
What a glamorous life!
Ordinary mothers needn't meet committees
But ordinary mothers don't get keys to cities
No, ordinary mothers merely see their children all year
Which is nothing, I hear
But it does interfere
With the glamorous?
I am the princess, guarded by dragons
Snorting and grumbling and rumbling in wagons
She's in her kingdom, wearing disguises, living a life that is full of surprises
And sometime this summer, she'll come galloping over the green!
Sometime this summer, to the rescue
My mother the queen!
Ordinary mothers thrive on being private
But ordinary mothers somehow can survive it
And ordinary mothers never know
They're just standing still with their kettles to fill
While they're missing the thrill
Of the glamorous life!
