Lady, What Do You Do All Day?

[00:01.08] Lady, what do you do all day?
[00:03.48] Lady, how do you spend your time?
[00:06.56] Lady?
[00:07.50] Got no time to be standing here gossiping
[00:09.44] Got no time to be answering
[00:11.45] Beds need making
[00:12.26] The dishes need washin'
[00:13.59] And then to me dustin' and polishin'
[00:15.48] Scrubbin' and sweepin' and sewin' and cleanin'
[00:17.20] And cookin' and ironing
[00:18.29] Are you listenin?
[00:19.06] I'm a production line all by myself
[00:21.05] Only my wages are missin'
[00:26.80] Three kids of ages seven and two
[00:28.70] Leisure is just a mythology
[00:30.53] When it's over my head
[00:31.50] I can't go to bed
[00:32.56] His temper or else psychology
[00:34.40] Mary's bed-wetting and Tommy is jealous
[00:36.37] The baby is yelling, it's driving me crazy
[00:38.50] A nurse and a nanny until I'm a granny
[00:40.55] But why is it nobody pays me?
[00:44.61] I care for a lovely old mother-in-law
[00:46.21] She's eighty-seven and cranky
[00:49.60] Husband's home with a feverish cold
[00:51.52] Run for the tea and the hankies
[00:53.92] The hot water bottle, the telly, the paper
[00:55.61] And now the kids have it
[00:56.54] It must be contagious
[00:57.56] And now I'm the family medical staff
[00:59.31] But where the hell are me wages?
[01:04.32] If wives and mothers all took to their heels
[01:06.33] You'd soon be needing an army
[01:08.35] And paying them all union wages
[01:10.42] I bet it'd drive you barmy
[01:12.37] All eyes and ears
[01:13.41] All hands and feet
[01:14.30] My sign is Gemini
[01:15.26] Should've been two of me
[01:16.58] I do the work of a dozen a day
[01:17.99] But where are the wages due to me?
[01:23.26] With wages so low and prices so high
[01:25.14] Budgeting must be meticulous
[01:27.04] The hours I've spent looking for bargains
[01:29.24] And cooking them's really ridiculous
[01:31.25] And though my man's doing all that he can
[01:33.18] What he brings home isn't making ends meet
[01:35.44] And I'll have to go out for a wage meself
[01:37.32] If the family's gonna keep eatin'
[01:42.48] Hoy!
[01:43.12] Up in the morning before all the family
[01:44.93] Get the grub on the table
[01:46.84] Beds need making, the dishes need washing
[01:48.77] It's everything done on the double
[01:50.88] Drop the kids off at the school and run for the bus
[01:52.49] Don't you think it's outrageous?
[01:54.38] I've more than enough with me labor of love
[01:56.22] Now I'm doing another for wages
[02:01.22] Me boss is as good as a boss can be
[02:03.28] The office is just like a nursery
[02:06.09] Smoothin' his tie, soothin' his trouble
[02:07.91] Rememberin' his anniversary
[02:09.71] Remind and hurry and scurry and worry
[02:11.66] And into the frying pan, out of the cage
[02:13.63] And it's home from home wherever I roam
[02:15.77] But at least I'm gettin' my wages
[02:19.83] On me way home I shop for the dinner
[02:21.66] And then have a tidy around
[02:23.85] Billy comes in, sits down with a paper
[02:25.78] Says "Girl, don't you ever sit down?"
[02:27.78] Men of the world, would you think it was strange?
[02:29.66] Think it was right?
[02:30.98] Think it was funny to slog every night at a job for free
[02:33.77] After slogging all day for your money?
[02:39.22] So, give me my wages
[02:40.42] Give me my due
[02:41.46] I'm opting out of the system
[02:43.35] Give me bonuses, overtime, sick leave
[02:45.48] And paid holidays and a pension
[02:47.46] Then I can strike
[02:49.10] Work to rule or go slow
[02:51.02] Or object to conditions and hours for wages
[02:53.39] Would give me the power to have a say
[02:55.13] In a world where a person who happens to be female
[02:57.19] Is supposed to be happy to spend all her time as a
[03:01.05] Baby minder, sock finder
[03:02.63] Bacon fryer, dish dryer
[03:03.77] Floor sweeper, light sweeper
[03:04.77] Brow smoother, mend the Hoover
[03:07.45] Nappy folder, hand holder
[03:08.67] Onion chopper, mess mopper
[03:09.76] Button sewer, to-and-fro-er
[03:11.06] Tidy-upper
[03:11.76] What's for supper?
[03:12.53] Money stretcher, run-and-fetch-er
[03:14.19] Cake baker, back acher, early waker, bed maker
[03:16.24] Breakfast maker, lunch maker, tea maker, sandwich maker
[03:17.95] Lady, what do you do all day?
[03:20.94] Lady, it's your only life
[03:24.09] When they ask you, what do you say?
[03:27.13] Oh, I don't work. I'm nothing but a housewife
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