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Just Think About It


Called into a house one day
To see a woman about a job~
She had asked for some painting done
And I needed to earn a bob~
I caught her scrubbing the porch
With a bucket of soapy water~
And being watched by a little one
She had five boys and a daughter~
She said to me as she looked up
Just look at me will you~
I was once an attractive woman
Now look at me and tell me true~
Did I shave my very legs for this
Did i once always dress mt best~
For I guy I once thought fab
With a bear like hairy chest~
Did I always wait on him hand and foot
And at his very beck and call~
And now , Here I am scrubbing boards
And mopping out this longest hall~
Picking up his dirty clothes
And cleaning hair from bath and sink~
Picking up his old work socks
I really do not think~
All the kids but one are at school
Soon this place will be world war three~
He comes in after a hard days work he says
So drunk he don't even know me~
Asking is his dinner cooked as yet
And all these screaming kids to boot~
Did I intend to eventually end up here
No I did not , married to this coot~
I look back and wish I could
Go back to those days my chum~
Did i go to all that trouble for this
Wished I had listened to my mum~
But then again the postman don't look bad
And the milkman looks pretty good~
They after all life's what you make it
Tell me mate do you think I should~
Did I do all that to end up here
A slave to a bloke thats never home~
Well I've been thinking about it mate
And I got some new plans of my own~

Terrence Michael Sutton
Copyright 2008




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