At the ballet - Carole Bishop/Nancy Lane.mp3

[00:05.16] SHEILA
[00:05.46] Daddy always thought that he married beneath him
[00:08.12] That's what he said, that's what he said.
[00:10.78] When he proposed he informed my mother
[00:13.11] He was probably her very last chance.
[00:17.17] And though she was twenty-two,
[00:19.35] Though she was twenty-two,
[00:21.34] Though she was twenty-two--
[00:25.18] She married him.
[00:28.94] Life with my dad wasn't ever a picnic
[00:31.47] More like a "Come as you are."
[00:33.98] When I was five I remember my mother
[00:36.62] Dug earrings out of the car
[00:39.29] I knew they weren't hers
[00:41.17] But it wasn't something you'd wanna discuss
[00:44.12] He wasn't warm, well, not to her ... well, not to us
[00:53.61] But ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet.
[01:01.44] Graceful men lift lovely girls in white.
[01:08.48] Yes, ev'rything was beautiful at ballet,
[01:15.31] Hey! I was happy at the ballet.
[01:22.32] That's why I started ballet class
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[01:24.42] SHEILA and BEBE
[01:24.70] Up a steep and very narrow stairway
[01:28.04] To the voice like a metronome
[01:31.63] Up a steep and very narrow stairway
[01:35.51] It wasn't paradise, it wasn't paradise,
[01:39.15] It wasn't paradise, but it was home.
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[01:45.83] BEBE
[01:48.42] Mother always said I'd be very attractive
[01:50.93] When I grew up, when I grew up
[01:53.57] "Diff'rent," she said,
[01:54.57] "With a special something
[01:55.86] And a very, very personal flair."
[01:59.83] And though I was eight or nine,
[02:02.04] Though I was eight or nine,
[02:04.11] Though I was eight or nine,
[02:07.54] I hated her.
[02:11.13] Now, "diff'rent" is nice, but it sure isn't pretty.
[02:14.00] "Pretty" is what it's about.
[02:16.64] I never met anyone who was "diff'rent"
[02:19.07] Who couldn't figure that out.
[02:21.38] So beautiful I'd never lived to see.
[02:27.37] But it was clear, if not to her,
[02:30.97] Well then to me!
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[02:35.44] BEBE and MAGGIE
[02:36.26] That ev'ryone is beautiful at the ballet.
[02:44.08] Ev'ry prince has got to have his swan.
[02:51.54] Yes, ev'ryone is beautiful at the ballet,
[02:58.10] Hey! I was pretty
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[03:02.08] SHEILA
[03:02.34] At the ballet
[03:05.82]
[03:06.71] SHEILA BEBE and MAGGIE
[03:07.50] Up a steep and very narrow stairway
[03:11.25] To the voice like a metronome
[03:14.98] Up a steep and very narrow stairway
[03:18.75] It wasn't paradise,
[03:20.63] it wasn't paradise,
[03:22.77] It wasn't paradise, but it was home.
[03:27.69]
[03:28.35] MAGGIE
[03:28.58] I don't know what they were for or against, really! Except each
[03:30.84] other! I mean, I was born to save their marriage. But when my father
[03:34.70] came to pick My mother up at the hospital, he said, "Well, I thought
[03:38.32] this was going to help But I guess it's not." Anyway, I did have a
[03:42.64] fantastic fantasy life I used to dance around the living room with
[03:46.87] my arms up like this. My fantasy was that it was an Indian chief and
[03:52.15] he'd say to me, "Maggie, do you wanna dance?" And I'd say,
[03:56.33] "Daddy, I would love to dance!"
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[03:59.42] SHEILA, BEBE and MAGGIE
[03:59.81] Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
[04:01.30] But it was clear when he proposed
[04:04.75] That I was born to help their marriage and when
[04:09.06] That's what he said,
[04:11.04] That's what she said,
[04:12.63] I used to dance around the living room
[04:16.94] He wasn't warm, not to her
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[04:20.26] MAGGIE
[04:21.18] It was an Indian chief and he said
[04:24.60] "Maggie, do you wanna dance?"
[04:28.21] And I said, "Daddy, I would love to."
[04:33.43] Ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet.
[04:40.68] Raise your arms and someone's always there
[04:48.38] Yes, ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet
[04:56.07] At the ballet... At the ballet...
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[05:16.13] SHEILA, BEBE and MAGGIE
[05:19.75] Yes ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet
[05:26.23] Hey!
[05:28.35] I was pretty
[05:30.43] I was happy
[05:33.07] "I would love to..."
[05:36.45] At the ballet.
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