Oh girl, you think you got time
Youre gonna get round to it way down the line
But one step, two step, fall behind
So you better have a good plan
Oh girl, you think you got time
Youre gonna get round to it way down the line
But Im telling you no matter what you have in mind
Still gonna need a man
Take it from your grandmother Ive been round
Ive been round, Ive been round
Yeah, take it from your grandmother Ive been round
Ive been round, Ive been round
No, no ones gonna take care of you
In that world youve got yourself into
All the good boys, baby theyre in grad school
Oh girl, your storys all wrong
Your dreamll be a nightmare before too long
Youre turning thirty and still trying to sing your songs
Come on who do you think you are
Oh girl its too heavy a load
Your mama and your baba they are worried souls
How you gonna raise a family when youre on the road
With some tattooed boy with a guitar
Take it from your grandmother Ive been round
Ive been round, Ive been round
Yeah, take it from your grandmother Ive been round
Ive been round, Ive been round
All this music career isnt real life
It wont see you through to when youre sixty five
And when the tide turns you wont survive
Youll sit on the banks and cry, cry, cry, cry
Gonna cry alone, cry, gonna cry
Oh girl, youve never know war
When they come in the night and knock on the door
And you can go from the high life to dirty poor
And lose everything you knew
But the one thing they cant take away from you
Is your mind and the education youve been through
And so you find a man who understands that too
Make sure that he stays true, gives respect where its due
Make sure he knows, make sure he knows
Make sure he knows what hes got in you
Because a woman isnt just for cooking meals
Scrubbing floors, making babies
A womans got ambitions same as he does
Maybe more
When the sirens wailed and the bombs fell
We ran from the schoolyard into hell
And what we couldve been time will never tell
Because we never had your chances
The advantages that youve been handed
Girl, youll never know how hard it was
So you got to do this for all of us
Take it from your grandmother Ive been round
Ive been round, Ive been round
Yeah, take it from your grandmother Ive been round
Ive been round, Ive been round
Yeah, take it from your grandmother Ive been round
Ive been round, Ive been round
Yeah, take it from your grandmother Ive been round