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Ladies First - Marlo Thomas (马洛·托马斯)

Did you hear the one about the little girl who was a tender

Sweet young thing

Well that's the way she thought of herself

And this tender

Sweet young thing spent a great deal of time just looking in the mirror

And saying

I am a real little lady anybody could tell that

I wear lovely starched cotton dresses with matching ribbons in my lovely curly locks

I wear clean white socks and shiny black patent leather shoes

And I always put just a dab of perfume behind each ear

When she was at the end of the lunch line at school

All she had to say was

Ladies first ladies first

And she'd get right up to the front of the line

Well her life went on like that for quite a while

And she wound up having a pretty good time

You know admiring herself in mirrors

And always getting to be first in line and stuff like that

And then one day she went exploring with a whole group of other people

Through the wilds of the deep and beastly jungle

As she went along through the tangled trails and the prickly vines

She would say things like

I have got to be careful of my lovely dress

And my nice white socks and my shiny

Shiny shoes and my curly curly locks

So would somebody please clear the way for me

And they did

Or sometimes she'd say

What do you mean there aren't enough mangoes to go around

And I'll have to share my mango

Because I was the last one across that icky river full of crocodiles and snakes

No matter how last I am it's still 'ladies first ladies first

So hand over a whole mango please

And they did

Well then guess what happened

Out of nowhere the exploring party was seized

Grabbed up by a bunch of hungry tigers

And these tigers tied all the people up

And dragged them back to their tiger lair where they sniffed around

Trying to decide what would make the best dinner

How about this one said the tiger chief

Nah too boney said the others

Well what about this one it's got a lot of meat on it

Uh-uh meaty but muscley

Oh for heaven's sakes don't take all night said the chief tiger

I never saw such a pack of picky eaters how about this one then

Looks tender smells nice

In fact I never saw anything quite like it before I wonder what it is

I am a tender sweet young thing

Oh far out said the tiger chief

I am also a little lady

You should know that by my lovely clothes and my lovely smell

And if it's all the same to you tiger tweetie

I wish you'd stop licking me

And untie me this instant my dress is getting mussed

Yes uh the tiger said well as a matter of fact

We were all just uh trying to decide who to untie first

Ladies first ladies first she said and so she was

And mighty tasty too