Momus - The Ladies Understand lyrics

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When I was a little whippersnapper of a boy just 19

years of age

And I happened to stain the sheets on the bed or I

happened to misbehave

The stains were lovingly washed away in a tub of soapy

water

By the ladies I protected from a world of horrible

slaughter

But whenever a piece of ultraviolent thuggery is done

And the world looks on with heart in mouth, speechless

and stunned

Remember that every offender is his own mother's son

Here is the song that I have always sung:

"Give me mass in the morning, the bookie's at noon

The brothel all night long

But I'll always be true to the ladies, the ladies

understand

I'm their favourite

They love me, I treat them like ... "

Then when at last I came of age and had to make my way

I set up shop with a dozen girls, so popular was I

I marched them up to the top of the town and there I

had them loiter

There are many worse ways to earn your pay in a world

of horrible slaughter

But whenever a piece of ultraviolent thuggery is done

And the world looks on with heart in mouth, speechless

and stunned

Remember that every offender is his own mother's son

Here is the song that I have always sung:

"Give me mass in the morning, the bookie's at noon

The brothel all night long

But I'll always be true to the ladies, the ladies

understand

I'm their favourite

They love me, I treat them like sh- ... "

One of my girls did a runner one day with a lad from

the orchestra

Who scraped a living on a violin and stayed at home

with Ma

I ground his instrument into the ground and Tracy, when

I caught her

That time got off lightly tn this world of horrible

slaughter

Now I've got a little whippersnapper of my own just at

the difficult age

And if he happens to slash a girl to test his army

penknife blade

The blood is lovingly washed away in a tub of soapy

water

By the girls he may protect one day from a world of

horrible slaughter

Give me mass in the morning, the bookie's at noon

The brothel all night long

But I'll always be true to the ladies, the ladies

understand

I'm their favourite

They love me, I treat them like sh- ...