I'm a dysfunctional mom, I guess--
Slave to the tube and to VHS:
Then there's my new best friend, the DVD--
Never should have let the kids watch "Mary Poppins"
[spoken: At least not three times in a row--
Or was it four?
Oh, NO...!]
I'm a disaster since yesterday--
They watched the film, but it's me who'll pay
My poor old brain's becoming porous
As it plays the dreadful chorus ONCE MORE:
"Sister Suffragettes"!
From reveille to beddy-bye I'm humming every tune
"Chim-chiminy", the lullaby--
Now folks think I'm a loon!
My uncle's wake began at nine,
They'd thrown me out by ten:
How come? 'Cause I'd begun to sing "I Love to Laugh" again!
No more the cool, collected, competent me--
The suffragettes march on mercilessly! [Into my ear!]
I'm a disaster again today,
Ready to throw the TV away:
My brain is hollering "no more!" as
It begins to play the chorus ONCE MORE...
ONCE MORE...
ONCE MORE...
"Sister Suff--"
[spoken--er, yelled: THAT'S ENOUGH!]
*click* [sounds of news broadcast]
[spoken: Ahhhhhh, that's better...]