A Mother Doesnt Matter Anymore

So, it`s come at last. At last it`s come, the day I knew would

come at last has come, at last. My sonny-boy doesn`t need me

any longer. Well, what are you waiting for? Get rid of me,

put me out with the garbage; just throw me out with the used

grapefruits and the empty cans from the tuna fish. And never

mind putting a lid on it. Leave it open so a hundred thousand

pussycats can walk all over a mother.Who bronzed your baby

shoes? Kissed ev`ry little bruise?

Who picked your dirty socks up off the floor?

You coughed and who was there?

It`s just too hard to bear,

A mother doesn`t matter anymore.

With bunions on my feet,

I trudged through snow and sleet,

To bring your lic`rice from the corner store.

I sold my Tiffany lamp,

So you could go to camp.

Now a mother doesn`t matter anymore.

That`s it, I`m ready to go and I don`t want you to spend

a cent. Fancy funerals are for rich people. Just wrap me

in a flag and throw me in the river on mother`s day.

[singing]

And precious, by the way,

The doctor called today.

What I got`s a condition,

Yes he`s sure,

There`s nothing they can do,

I`ll last a week or two.

Because for a condition there`s no cure.

That time you caught the croup,

Who made you chicken soup,

And read you `Bambi` till her throat was sore?

You sacrifice your life, then, BANG!

You get the knife.

Now a mother doesn`t matter anymore.

There, I feel better now. Everything is as it should be.

A mother is lying on top of a sanitation truck, bound for the

city dump and a son is running around with a floozie who came

looking for a good time and stayed to ruin an American woman`s

life.

Who gave up nights of rest

To rub Vicks on your chest?

Who nursed her sonny boy till he was four?

My life has been in vain,

This country`s down the drain,

`Cause a mother doesn`t matter,

No, a mother doesn`t matter,

Yes, a mother doesn`t matter anymore