Show Just Folks By EDGAR A. A GUEST JANET JANEI DISCUSSES AN OLD AGE PROBLEM 1 Whenever I ask for long dresses ses to wear Or shoes with high heels eels or a wave for my hair Or on school nights permission to togo togo togo go to a show Or a neighborhood dance mother always says No And remember the answer is final and flat flat flat- Your mother was married before she did that If It I mention New York and the wish to go there Mother puts down don her sewing and says I declare Who'd ever have guessed that a year old girl cirl Would be wanting to sample New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's dizzy whirl Before ever Id I'd made such a journey journey jour jour- ney my dear Your father and I had been married a year Before ever a compact and lipstick she carried Or painted her finger nails nalls mother was married She was married before fore she had powdered her nose Or went very often otten to dances and shows And even though times s very different different dif dif dif- ferent are She was married before she had driven a car If II I ask for silk stockings she says Gracious me I was married before I had silk Ilk hosiery I was marri married d before I had been on a 3 ship shio Or taken so much as a sleeping sleeping car ar trip And sometimes I wonder and wish that I knew What mother before she was married married mar mar- ried ned did do Copyright 1935 Ed Edgar ar A. A Guest |