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Shirley Temple

I get a terr'ble awful ache<br /> 'specially when it rains.<br /> At first I was a 'fraidy cat<br /> But now I know it's growing pains.<br /> Gosh! oh gee! oh can't you see,<br /> I'll soon be grown up tall,<br /> So I've got to think what I will be<br /> When I'm no longer small.When I grow up<br /> In a year or two or three,<br /> I'll be happy as can be<br /> Like a birdie in a tree.When I grow up<br /> There's a lot I want to do.<br /> I will have real dollies too,<br /> Like the woman in the shoe!I want to be a teacher so the children can say,<br /> Teacher dear<br /> The gangs all here<br /> With apples today.When I grow up<br /> I will have a big surprise,<br /> For I'll bake the kind of pies,<br /> That'll make you roll your eyes.<br /> And if you see<br /> That you need some company,<br /> You can call me up and I'll come down<br /> When I grow up!.When I am sweet sixteen I'm going to a ball,<br /> Of all the ladies there I'd like to be the best of all;<br /> I'll wear a dress of silver and lace, they'll call me Princess Curly,<br /> I'll be like Cinderella 'cept I won't run home so early.<br /> I want to meet a handsome prince with a uniform of gold,<br /> But I won't lose my slipper 'cause my tootsies might get cold.<br /> I'll talk with queens and dance with kings like a little princess would;<br /> If I could only do these things, I promise I'll be good.When I am twenty-one I wish that I could look<br /> Like the picture that I saw in a pretty story book;<br /> A laur little girls were standing there much tinier than me<br /> And they all carried baskets, they looked happy as can be,<br /> Every one was smiling and having lots of fun;<br /> I wish that I could be like that when I am twenty-one.When I get very very old I'll stay at home all day,<br /> But I haven't quite made up my mind,-- it's much too far away.<br /> I think that I would like to be like the lady on the wall,<br /> She looks so nice and comfy in her rocking chair 'n' all.<br /> With that little cap upon her head she looks real pretty, too,<br /> I like her long and funny dress, I like her hair, don't you?<br /> It must be oh,-- so quiet you can hear the tick of the clock,<br /> But it must be fun to have nothing to do but rock, and rock, and rock.<br /> <br /> Songwriters<br /> HENDERSON, RAY/HEYMAN, EDWARDPublished by<br /> Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing GroupLyrics provided by TANCODEhttps://damnlyrics.com/" readonly=""/>