Tonart: D major
Intro 1
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Me and all the other mothers
Verse 1
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We hang around the playground all day
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Watching over all of our precious
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young ones
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We watch them climb and slide
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Yeah, we were sippin' on our
Verse 2
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Chit- chattin' telling little white lies
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Labour, horror- stories and
painless abortions
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I wasn't feeling like one
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of the guys
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Barefootin' all over that sand- pile
Verse 3
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"Get down from that jungle,
Jim!"
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And their whole wide world
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is just three lunch boxes
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And a luke- warm water fountain
Verse 4
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Me and all the other mothers
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Were praying that the sun
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gonna shine
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And if the winos and weirdos steer
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clear of the playground
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Everything'll be just fine
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Yeah Everything'll be just fine
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Verse 5
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It's easy to get injured in
the playground
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Scrapes and bruises on
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No, it's no bed of roses,
no bowl of Cheerios
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An d they say you've got
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But
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mother knows best in
the playground
When they watch them and
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they leave them alone
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And if the don't want to play,
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she can make them all stay
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when to take them all home
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Verse 7
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I got a crush on a mother
Maybe we should in
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ter- tangle our lives
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Her son and my daughter were
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And she's reminding me
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of all of my wives
Verse 8
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Me and all the other mothers
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Were praying that the sun gonna shine
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And if the winos and weirdos steer
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clear of the playground
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Everything'll be just fine
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Yeah Everything'll be just fine
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Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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I saw an actual father!
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But there was something wrong
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with something he did
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He and his son were climbing
up in a tree
And someone said that he'd
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kidnapped the kid
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Well then the mothers they all
Verse 10
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And pointing at the man in the tree
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The sharp- shooters arrived
and they shot the man dead
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You know, that guy, he could've been me
Verse 11
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A grown man should no go tree- climbing
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It's about time that that guy grew up
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But most fathers are really
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In the long run, they al ways
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screw
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up
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Verse 12
Me and all the other mothers
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Were praying that the sun gonna shine
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And if the winos and weirdos steer
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clear of the playground
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Everything'll be just fine
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Yeah Everything'll be just fine
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