Michelle Shocked

When I Grow Up

Michelle Shocked


When I grow up I want to be an old woman
When I grow up I want to be an old woman
An old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old woman

Then I think I'm gonna find myself an old man
Then I think I'm gonna marry myself that old man
An old, an old, an old, a really old man

We're gonna have a hundred and twenty babies
A hundred and five ten fifteen twenty babies
That's right that's what 
I said a hundred and twenty babies

We'll raise them on tiger's milk 
And green bananas
Mangoes and coconuts and watermelon
We're gonna give 'em that watermelon 
When they start yellin

Here's what they'll yell

In the summer we'll sit in a field 
And watch the sun melt
In the winter we'll sit by a fire 
And watch the moon freeze me 
My old man and a hundred and twenty babies
I said me my old man 
And a hundred and twenty babies
When I grow up I want to be an old woman
When I grow up I want to be an old