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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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