When I Grow Up
Shirley Temple

I get a terr'ble awful ache
'specially when it rains.
At first I was a 'fraidy cat
But now I know it's growing pains.
Gosh! oh gee! oh can't you see,
I'll soon be grown up tall,
So I've got to think what I will be
When I'm no longer small.

When I grow up
In a year or two or three,
I'll be happy as can be
Like a birdie in a tree.

When I grow up
There's a lot I want to do.
I will have real dollies too,
Like the woman in the shoe!

I want to be a teacher so the children can say,
Teacher dear
The gangs all here
With apples today.

When I grow up
I will have a big surprise,
For I'll bake the kind of pies,
That'll make you roll your eyes.
And if you see
That you need some company,
You can call me up and I'll come down
When I grow up!.

When I am sweet sixteen I'm going to a ball,
Of all the ladies there I'd like to be the best of all;
I'll wear a dress of silver and lace, they'll call me Princess Curly,
I'll be like Cinderella 'cept I won't run home so early.
I want to meet a handsome prince with a uniform of gold,
But I won't lose my slipper 'cause my tootsies might get cold.
I'll talk with queens and dance with kings like a little princess would;
If I could only do these things, I promise I'll be good.

When I am twenty-one I wish that I could look
Like the picture that I saw in a pretty story book;
A laur little girls were standing there much tinier than me
And they all carried baskets, they looked happy as can be,
Every one was smiling and having lots of fun;
I wish that I could be like that when I am twenty-one.

When I get very very old I'll stay at home all day,
But I haven't quite made up my mind,-- it's much too far away.
I think that I would like to be like the lady on the wall,
She looks so nice and comfy in her rocking chair 'n' all.
With that little cap upon her head she looks real pretty, too,
I like her long and funny dress, I like her hair, don't you?
It must be oh,-- so quiet you can hear the tick of the clock,
But it must be fun to have nothing to do but rock, and rock, and rock.


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Lyrics by Shirley Temple

  An Old Straw Hat   An Old Straw Hat [From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm]   Animal Crackers In My Soup   Animal Crackers in My Soup [From Curly Top]   At The Codfish Ball   Baby Take A Bow   Baby, Take a Bow   Baby, Take a Bow [From Stand Up and Cheer]   Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms   But Definitely   But Definitely [From Poor Little Rich Girl]   But Definitely [From The Poor Little Rich Girl]   Come And Get Your Happiness   Curly Top   Curly Top's Birthday   Early Bird   Goodnight My Love   He Was a Dandy   He Was a Dandy [From Dimples]   Hey What Did The Bleu Jay Say?   I Love To Walk In The Rain   If All The World Were Paper   In Our Little Wooden Shoes   In Our Little Wooden Shoes [From Heidi]   It's All So New To Me   Little Colonel   Little Miss Broadway   Love's Young Dream   Military Man   Now And Forever   Oh My Goodness   Oh, My Goodness   Oh, My Goodness [From Poor Little Rich Girl]   Oh, My Goodness [From The Poor Little Rich Girl]   Oh, My Goodness!   On Account - A I Love You   On The Good Ship Lollipop   On the Good Ship Lollipop [From Bright Eyes]   On The Good Ship Lollypop   One Never Knows, Does One?   Our Little Girl   Picture Me Without You   Picture Me Without You [From Dimples]   Polly Wolly Doodle   Polly-Wolly-Doodle   Polly-Wolly-Doodle [From the Littlest Rebel]   Stowaway (Goodnight, My Love)   That's What I Want For Chrismas   The Right Somebody To Love   The Simple Things In Life   The Toy Trumpet   The World Owes Me A Living   This Is A Happy Little Ditty   Together   Toy Trumpet   Tra La La La   When I'm With You   You Gotta Eat Your Spinach   You Gotta S-M-I-L-E (To Be H-A-Double P-Y)   You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-P-P-Y

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