When I Grow Up

When I Grow Up - Shirley Temple

Lyricist：Ray Henderson

Composer：Ray Henderson

When I grow up

In a year or two or three

I'll be happy as can be

Like a birdie in a tree

When I grow up

There's a lot I want to do

I will have real dollies too

Like the woman in the shoe

I want to be a teacher

So the children can say

Oh teacher dear

The gangs all here

With apples today

When I grow up

I will have a big surprise

For I'll bake the kind of pies

That'll make you roll your eyes

And if you see

That you need some company

You can call me up and I'll come down

When I grow up

When I am sweet sixteen I'm going to a ball

Of all the ladies there

I'd like to be the best of all

I'll wear a dress of silver and lace

They'll call me Princess Curly

I'll be like Cinderella 'cept

I won't run home so early

I want to meet a handsome prince

With a uniform of gold

But I won't lose my slipper

'Cause my tootsies might get cold

I'll talk with queens and dance

With kings like a little princess would

If I could only do these things

I promise I'll be good

When I am twenty one

I wish that I could look

Like the picture that

I saw in a pretty story book

A lady all dressed up in white

With flowers in her hand

And such a veil I never saw

The biggest in the land

Four little girls were standing there

Much tinier than me

And they all carried baskets

They looked happy as can be

Every one was smiling and having lots of fun

I wish that I could be like that

When I am twenty one

When I get very very old

I'll stay at home all day

But I haven't quite made up my mind

It's much too far away

I think that I would like to be like

The lady on the wall

She looks so nice and comfy in her rocking

Chair 'n' all

With that little cap upon her head

She looks real pretty too

I like her long and funny dress

I like her hair don't you

It must be oh

So quiet you can hear the tick of the clock

But it must be fun to have nothing

To do but rock and rock and rock