Sweet Sixteen-Judy Garland/Judy Garland

[ti:Sweet Sixteen] [ar:Judy Garland] [al:All Judy - 50 Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sweet Sixteen - Judy Garland [00:09.60]For fifteen years I've played a waiting game [00:13.85] [00:14.44]I've suffered like they do in russian plays [00:19.73] [00:20.30]But if what's in store is really what they claim [00:24.38] [00:25.34]I must admit that suffering really pays [00:30.47] [00:31.22]For fifteen years I've been just like a prisoner in a cell [00:36.64]For fifteen years my life has been just awful [00:42.71] [00:43.86]From one to four was such a bore [00:46.41] [00:47.02]I remember how I hated having all those people paw all over me [00:49.87]And talk baby talk they'd say goo-goo isn't she cunning [00:54.30]Poor dear she has her father's nose ah-tic-a-tic-a-tic-a-tic-a-tic-a [00:57.10] [00:58.00]The years from five to eight I hate [01:00.82]I've grown into a very unattractive child and consequently [01:03.35]Was utterly and completely ignored [01:06.17] [01:07.02]But I didn't really mind I had a book of mother goose and mother goose [01:11.37]Is pretty hot stuff when you're five years old [01:14.55]At nine I had the measles so that didn't count [01:18.24]At ten I'd reached the performing stage [01:22.12]And at the drop of a hat mother would call me in [01:24.29]And have me sing the rosary for her guests [01:26.48] [01:27.20]I never will forget how papa used to squirm when I hit that high note [01:30.47] [01:31.21]From eleven to thirteen [01:32.99]I'd rather not speak of [01:34.84]It was bad enough having jimmy doogan pull my hair in school [01:37.09]But it was positively humiliating to have my own mother [01:40.12]Refer to me as her dear little ugly duckling [01:44.75]At fourteen I had my first taste of romance [01:48.85] [01:49.83]It was at a party at dancing school and [01:52.79] [01:53.35]He was younger than I was shorter than I was [01:58.69] [01:59.62]Oh but he had a wonderful name archibold [02:03.82]And he really like me too he really did [02:05.86] [02:06.49]But I had to go and spoil it all I asked him right out [02:10.33]If he'd be my best beau [02:12.02] [02:13.32]That was the last I ever saw of him [02:16.09]By now I was fifteen and pretty miserable [02:18.79] [02:19.35]Mother refused to let me wear any lipstick or rouge [02:22.35]And I went around looking as pale as death [02:25.33] [02:26.15]It was then that I decided to join the monastary [02:28.91]And I would have too if it hadn't been for bing crosby [02:33.26] [02:34.34]I was afraid they wouldn't have any radios in monastaries [02:37.19] [02:38.05]So I devoted my fifteenth year to kraft cheese [02:42.60] [02:43.18]But now it's a different story I can brush away the tears [02:47.95] [02:48.57]And lau-augh at those awful fifteen years for now I'm [02:57.64] [02:58.34]Sweet sixteen and I've got my first long dress [03:05.16] [03:06.35]I can even have a date one night a week [03:12.22]I can paint my lips a little and rouge my cheeks [03:17.56]I'm sweet sixteen but I really must confess [03:23.65] [03:25.21]Although this grown up life isn't simple [03:30.75] [03:31.37]I wouldn't change places with shirley temple [03:36.28]Gee it's great to be just as free as the birds above me [03:43.06] [03:45.65]I'm a juliet out to get a romeo to love me [03:53.08]I ask you please forget that I was an in-between [04:00.38] [04:01.58]I mean my flags unfurled I'm a woman of the world [04:08.92]I'm sweet sixteen