Your Mother's Here to Stay

Your Mother's Here to Stay - Allan Sherman

It's very clear

Your mother's here to stay

Not just a year

But ever and a day

She came to stay

Just for mother's day

With the kids and you and me

And that was mother's day of 1953

If it appears

That I've become a grouch

It's all these years

Of sleeping on the couch

I hear Gibraltar just tumbled

The Rockies just crumbled

I knew they'd go some day

But your mother's here to stay

If she'd go back

If she'd just say goodbye

I'd help her pack

And as she left I'd cry

She just complains

With her aches and pains

And here arteries are hard

How come she's out there playing leap frog

In the yard

Her evening snack

Would feed a herd of elk

Then she sits back

And watches Lawrence Welk

I'm taking you

And the cherubs

And just like the Arabs

We'll silently steal away and

Leave mother here to stay