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Gotta Get Home By Midnight

from First Farewell by Peggy Seeger

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GOTTA GET HOME BY MIDNIGHT
(aka Getting Younger by the Hour)
Words & music Peggy Seeger
Published by Bucks Music Group

When I wake up in the morning
I’m a hundred 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
Getting younger by the hour
Gotta get home by midnight

It’s a beautiful day
And I’m sixty four
In my new red shoes
My kitchen is a dance floor
Lunchtime and I’m in my prime
Fifty and I'm heading for 49
Getting younger by the hour
Gotta get home by midnight

An hour ago I was forty-one
I said I was thirty- nine
But now I’m twenty heading for my teens
Hormones drivin' me out of my mind
If I stay any longer I'll be buyin' those blue jeans
The ones manufactured with the holes all over
Getting younger by the hour
Gotta get home by midnight

When the clock strikes twelve Nature 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 looked into my blue eyes
And said 'They’re the colour of time.'
He knelt down by my chair
And that little glass slipper just fitted me fine.
He’s waitin’ for me now in the moonlight
He said, Come home whenever you like'
I want to run my hands through his curly grey hair
So goodnight --- I gotta get home ...

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from First Farewell, released April 9, 2021
Vocals & guitar: Peggy Seeger
Produced by Calum MacColl
Mixed by Calum Malcolm

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Peggy is one of the most influential folk singers on either side of the Atlantic. She is Pete Seeger’s half-sister and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s daughter; her first life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her. She has made more than 22 solo recordings to date. Please check ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com for other albums featuring Peggy. ... more

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