When I Grow Up
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When I Grow Up
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When I grow up I want to be an old woman
When I grow up I want to be an old woman
An old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old woman
Then I think I'm gonna find myself an old man
Then I think I'm gonna marry myself that old man
An old, an old, an old, a really old man
We're gonna have a hundred and twenty babies
A hundred and five ten fifteen twenty babies
That's right that's what
I said a hundred and twenty babies
We'll raise them on tiger's milk
And green bananas
Mangoes and coconuts and watermelon
We're gonna give 'em that watermelon
When they start yellin
Here's what they'll yell
In the summer we'll sit in a field
And watch the sun melt
In the winter we'll sit by a fire
And watch the moon freeze me
My old man and a hundred and twenty babies
I said me my old man
And a hundred and twenty babies
When I grow up I want to be an old woman
When I grow up I want to be an old
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