Текст песни: The Glamorous Life + перевод

Ordinary mothers lead ordinary lives

Keep the house and sweep the parlor

Mend the clothes and tend the children

Ordinary mothers, like ordinary wives

Make the beds and bake the pies

And wither on the vine

Not mine

Dying by inches every night

What a glamorous life

Brought on by wenches to recite

What a glamorous life

Ordinary mothers never get the flowers

And ordinary mothers never get the joys

Ordinary mothers couldn’t cough for hours

Maintaining their poise

Sandwiches only

But she eats what she wants, when she wants

Sometimes it’s lonely

But she meets many handsome gallants

Ordinary mothers don’t live out of cases

But ordinary mothers don’t go different places

Which ordinary mothers can’t do, being mothers all day

Mine’s away in a play

And she’s realer than they

What if her broach is only glass

And her costumes unravel?

What if her coach is second class?

She at least gets to travel

And sometime this summer, meaning soon

She’ll be traveling to me

Sometime this summer, maybe June

I’m the new place she’ll see

Ordinary daughters may think life is better

With ordinary mothers near them when they choose

But ordinary daughters seldom get a letter

Enclosing reviews

Gay and resilient with applause

What a glamorous life

Speeches are brilliant, if they’re Shaw’s

What a glamorous life

Ordinary mothers needn’t meet committees

But ordinary mothers don’t get keys to cities

No, ordinary mothers merely see their children all year

Which is lovely, I hear

But it does interfere with the glamorous—

I am the princess, guarded by dragons

Snorting and grumbling and rumbling in wagons

She’s in her kingdom, wearing disguises

Living a life that is full of surprises

And sometime this summer

She’ll come galloping over the green

Sometime this summer, to the rescue

My mother the queen

Ordinary mothers thrive on being private

And ordinary mothers somehow can survive it

But ordinary others never, no they’re just standing still

With the kettles to fill

While they’re missing the thrill

Of the glamorous life

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