Gotta Get Home by Midnight Songtext
von Peggy Seeger

When I wake up in the morning, I′m a 100 years old
My feet on the floor and I'm 99
A good hot shower and I′m looking at 80
After breakfast I'm 79
Gettin' younger by the hour
Gotta get home by midnight

It′s a beautiful day, I′m 64 in new red shoes
My kitchen is a dancefloor
Lunch time and I'm in my prime
50 and I′m heading for 49
Gettin' younger by the hour
Gotta get home by midnight


And hour ago I was 41, I said I was 39
But now I′m 20 heading for my teens
Hormones drivin' me out of my mind
If I stay any longer, I′ll buyin' those blue jeans
The ones manufactured with the holes all over
Gettin' younger by the hour
Gotta get home by midnight

When the clock strikes 12
Natures resumes her own gravitational plan
Then I′m hittin′ the road with father time
Draggin' me by the hand
But I′m gonna leave a little glass slipper behind
Before the rats start pulling my van
Getting younger by the hour
Gotta get home by midnight

My doorbell rang in the middle of the night
Prince charming is standing there
He gazed into my blue eyes
He said, "They're the colour of time"
He knelt down by my chair
And that little glass slipper just fitted me fine
He′s waiting for me now in the moon light
He said, "Come home whenever you like"


I want to run my hands through his curly grey hair
So goodnight
I gotta get home