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Lyrics for Babysitter by Harry Chapin:
| | | Artist: | Harry Chapin |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Babysitter | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 118 | | | | Lyrics: | When I rearrange the pieces of the puzzle of my past
I sigh at the heartaches, relive the
laughs
And I think about the moments that have left their mark
And the too few faces that
shine a little light in the dark
If you don't mind I'm gonna tell you a story
And
I think that it won't bore you
For it's a tale that I've never told
To anyone before you--
`cause it's for you
The sun of sixteen summers had put halos in your hair
If
anything was in my head, twelve winters put it there
A dollar an hour is what Mama paid you to
come and mind her kids
But no one could really pay you enough for what you really
did
Many happy things keep happening
On my journey through this world
And in
many ways, that I will never understand
I was much too late
To be the first to make you a
woman
But you were the one
Who made my mother's son a man
You know I used to
read myself to sleep when I went to bed
I guess I was a dreamer then who lived inside my
head
But the nights that you came you talked of things, I found I had a friend
You brought
my fears of people to a sure and gentle end
Many happy things keep happening
On my
journey through this world
And in many ways, that I will never understand
I was much too
late
To be the first to make you a woman
But you were the one
Who made my mother's son
a man
Do you remember the night when you turned out the light
And said to me:
"Please hold me"
I did not know which way to go
So I did just what you told me "Please hold
me"
When I think about you now it's not that my memory fails
There's just no need
for graphic telling of all the details
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