Sweet Sixteen-Judy Garland

[ti:Sweet Sixteen] [ar:So What!] [al:The Greatest Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.19]Sweet Sixteen - So What! (朱迪·嘉兰) [00:00.94]Written by：Roger Edens [00:01.56] [00:10.99]For fifteen years I've played a waiting game [00:15.97]I've suffered like they do in Russian plays [00:21.73]But if what's in store is really what they claim [00:25.90] [00:26.89]I must admit that suffering really pays [00:32.25] [00:32.75]For fifteen years I've been just like a prisoner in a cell [00:37.36] [00:38.14]For fifteen years my life has been just awful [00:43.58] [00:45.31]From one to four was such a bore [00:48.16]I remember how I hated having all those people [00:50.25]Paw all over me and talk baby talk [00:52.74]They'd say goo goo isn't she cunning [00:55.08] [00:55.62]Poor dear she has her father's nose [00:57.34]Ah tic a tic a tic a tic a tic a [00:58.54] [00:59.31]The years from five to eight I hate [01:02.05] [01:02.69]I've grown into a very unattractive child [01:04.70]And consequently was utterly and completely ignored [01:07.59] [01:08.36]But I didn't really mind I had a book of mother goose [01:11.29] [01:12.10]And mother goose is pretty [01:13.51]Hot stuff when you're five years old [01:15.17] [01:15.95]At nine I had the measles so that didn't count [01:19.64]At ten I'd reached the performing stage [01:23.80]And at the drop of a hat mother would call me in [01:25.56]And have me sing the rosary for her guest [01:28.26] [01:28.79]I never will forget how papa used to squirm [01:30.58]When I hit that high note [01:32.02] [01:32.67]From eleven to thirteen I'd rather not speak of [01:35.68] [01:36.47]It was bad enough having jimmy doogan pull my hair in school [01:39.05]But it was positively humiliating to have [01:40.73]My own mother refer to me as her dear little ugly duckling [01:45.63] [01:46.35]At fourteen I had my first taste of romance [01:50.55] [01:51.64]It was at a party at dancing school [01:53.64]And he was younger than I was shorter than I was [02:00.26] [02:01.39]Oh but he had a wonderful name Archibold [02:05.36]And he really like me too he really did [02:06.79] [02:08.00]But I had to go and spoil it all [02:09.74] [02:10.92]I asked him right out if he'd be my best beau [02:13.47] [02:14.77]That was the last I ever saw of him [02:16.75] [02:17.47]By now I was fifteen and pretty miserable [02:20.86]Mother refused to let me wear any lipstick or rouge [02:23.46]And I went around looking as pale as death [02:26.68] [02:27.62]It was then that I decided to join the monastery [02:29.79] [02:30.60]And I would have too if it hadn't been for bing Crosby [02:34.74] [02:36.13]I was afraid they wouldn't have any radios in monasteries [02:38.65] [02:39.50]So I devoted my fifteenth year to Kraft cheese [02:44.21] [02:45.13]But now it's a different story I can brush away the tears [02:50.42]And laugh at those awful fifteen years [02:56.00]For now I'm sweet sixteen and I've got my first long dress [03:07.62] [03:08.40]I can even have a date one night a week [03:14.26]I can paint my lips a little and rouge my cheeks [03:19.36]I'm sweet sixteen but I really must confess [03:26.42] [03:27.34]Although this grown up life isn't simple [03:32.87] [03:33.72]I wouldn't change places with Shirley temple [03:38.43]Gee it's great to be just as free as the birds above me [03:46.48] [03:47.85]I'm a Juliet out to get a Romeo to love me [03:55.26]I ask you please forget that I was an in between [04:03.73]I mean my flags unfurled I'm a woman of the world [04:10.88]I'm sweet sixteen