My Old Lady

My Old Lady - Harry Chapin

She wore an S E G when she came back home

Like the cat that ate the canary

And I stood befuddled a chauvinist stud

With his mistress quite contrary

I was smack up against the moment

I was afraid I would face someday

But the truth is a wall that you can't blow down

And it won't be laughed away

You see my old lady went and took herself

A young man last night

It got me crazy when she said

Baby don't you get uptight

I think maybe it's the time for you to see the light

She said It's alright now boy I'm yours tonight

Now I admit my imagination's been

The sweetest sinner of all

Yes it lives like a snake in Eden

And it forgives each time I fall

So I've been Casanova

I've double dated with Don Juan

And though I've been doing almost everything

I never dreamed she'd be carrying on

You see my old lady went and took herself

A young man last night

It got me crazy when she said

Baby don't you get uptight

She think maybe it's the time for you to see the light

She said It's alright now boy I'm yours tonight

She says that she still loves me

She says that last night was no big deal

She says Why can't a woman play the same damn game

And act out what she feels

She says she's going to take a bath

I hear her singing in the tub upstairs

While I'm sitting here spitting out chunks of my heart

Forced into being fair

While she's splashing round up there

I'm supposed to act like I don't care

I hear the devil laughing somewhere

You see my old lady went and took herself

A young man last night

It got me crazy when she said

Baby don't you get uptight

She think maybe it's the time for you to see the light

She said It's alright now boy I'm yours tonight