So, it`s come at last. At last it`s come, the day I knew would come at last has come, at last. My sonny-boy doesn`t need me any longer. Well, what are you waiting for? Get rid of me, put me out with the garbage; just throw me out with the used grapefruits and the empty cans from the tuna fish. And never mind putting a lid on it. Leave it open so a hundred thousand pussycats can walk all over a mother.Who bronzed your baby shoes? Kissed ev`ry little bruise? Who picked your dirty socks up off the floor? You coughed and who was there? It`s just too hard to bear, A mother doesn`t matter anymore. With bunions on my feet, I trudged through snow and sleet, To bring your lic`rice from the corner store. I sold my Tiffany lamp, So you could go to camp. Now a mother doesn`t matter anymore. That`s it, I`m ready to go and I don`t want you to spend a cent. Fancy funerals are for rich people. Just wrap me in a flag and throw me in the river on mother`s day. [singing] And precious, by the way, The doctor called today. What I got`s a condition, Yes he`s sure, There`s nothing they can do, I`ll last a week or two. Because for a condition there`s no cure. That time you caught the croup, Who made you chicken soup, And read you `Bambi` till her throat was sore? You sacrifice your life, then, BANG! You get the knife. Now a mother doesn`t matter anymore. There, I feel better now. Everything is as it should be. A mother is lying on top of a sanitation truck, bound for the city dump and a son is running around with a floozie who came looking for a good time and stayed to ruin an American woman`s life. Who gave up nights of rest To rub Vicks on your chest? Who nursed her sonny boy till he was four? My life has been in vain, This country`s down the drain, `Cause a mother doesn`t matter, No, a mother doesn`t matter, Yes, a mother doesn`t matter anymore