Sweet Sixteen-Judy Garland

[ti:Sweet Sixteen] [ar:Judy Garland] [al:Zing! Went The Strings: The Judy Garland Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.00]Sweet Sixteen – Judy Garland [00:01.93] [00:10.03]For fifteen years I've played a waiting game [00:15.02]I've suffered like they do in Russian plays [00:20.08] [00:20.76]But if what's in store is really what they claim [00:24.77] [00:25.85]I must admit that suffering really pays [00:30.54] [00:31.44]For fifteen years I've been just like a prisoner in a cell [00:36.09] [00:36.61]For fifteen years my life has been just - awful [00:42.91] [00:43.72]From one to four was such a bore [00:46.80]I remember how I hated having all those people [00:48.77]Paw all over me and talk baby talk [00:51.19]They'd say goo-goo isn't she cunning [00:53.67]Poor dear she has her father's nose [00:55.78]Ah-tic-a-tic-a-tic-a-tic-a-tic-a [00:55.94] [00:57.74]The years from five to eight I hate [01:00.78]I've grown into a very unattractive child [01:02.85]And consequently was utterly and completely ignored [01:05.61] [01:06.60]But I didn't really mind [01:08.01]I had a book of Mother Goose and Mother Goose is pretty [01:11.45]Hot stuff when you're five years old [01:13.66]At nine I had the measles so that didn't count [01:17.03] [01:17.62]At ten I'd reached the performing stage [01:21.57]And at the drop of a hat mother would call me in and have me sing [01:24.04]The Rosary for her guests [01:26.43]I never will forget how papa used to squirm [01:28.40]When I hit that high note [01:30.37]From eleven to thirteen I'd rather not speak of [01:33.88]It was bad enough having Jimmy Doogan pull my hair in school [01:36.46]But it was positively humiliating to have my own mother [01:39.25]Refer to me as her dear little ugly duckling [01:43.64]At fourteen I had my first taste of romance [01:47.25] [01:48.74]It was at a party at dancing school [01:50.89]And he was younger than I was shorter than I was [01:58.31]Oh but he had a wonderful name - Archibold [02:02.41]And he really like me too [02:04.70]Really he did but I had to go and spoil it all [02:07.62]I asked him right out if he'd be my best beau [02:09.68] [02:11.89]That was the last I ever saw of him [02:14.30]By now I was fifteen and pretty miserable [02:17.61]Mother refused to let me wear any lipstick [02:19.61]Or rouge and I went around looking as pale as death [02:24.28]It was then that I decided to join the monastary [02:26.85]And I would have too if it hadn't been for Bing Crosby [02:32.32]I was afraid they wouldn't have any radios in manastaries [02:33.94] [02:35.58]So I devoted my fifteenth year to Kraft cheese [02:40.91]But now it's a different story I can brush away the tears [02:46.23]And lau-augh at those awful fifteen years [02:51.70]For now I'm [02:55.63]Sweet Sixteen and I've got my first long dress [03:02.50] [03:03.65]I can even have a date one night a week [03:09.36]I can paint my lips a little and rouge my cheeks [03:14.31]I'm sweet sixteen but I really must confess [03:19.73] [03:22.11]Although this grown up life isn't simple [03:27.38] [03:28.14]I wouldn't change places with Shirley Temple [03:32.93]Gee it's great to be just as free as the birds - above me [03:41.03] [03:42.11]I'm a Juliet out to get a Romeo to love me [03:49.27]I ask you please forget that I was an in-between [03:57.60]I mean my flags unfurled I'm a woman of the world [04:04.62]I'm sweet sixteen