Around the World

It's my mother's house
 In my mother's name
 And you can't beat Mother at Mother's game
 'Cause she likes the people who I don't like
 And if I don't like it, it's "Take a hike!"
 Which is Mother's way of reminding me
 When you live off Mother, you can't be free
 And I think that Mother is very mean
 And this latest thing, with this wash machine
 The one Jerry brought -
 Don't be too surprised
 If the guy moves in, and I'm pulverized
 'Cause I'll be damned if I'm gonna waste my time
 Washing clothes in a goddamn machine!
 I feel very strongly about mementoes
 Memorabilia, I guess you call it
 Around the world is what I call my wall of special things
 Around the world with rose bouquets I dried and tied on strings
 A silver mask from a masquerade
 Around and round I twirled
 You tack them up
 So you can twirl around the world
 Edie! He found it! Jerry found my old song!
 It's my mother's house
 With my mother's friends
 And with Jerry coming, it never ends
 It's the same old story as George Gould Strong
 Not in twenty years did we get along
 Though I do feel bad for the way he died
 In a two-bit flea-bag, a suicide
 It was Mother's money - the Bouviers'
 And if Mother spends it in crazy ways
 No one else took care of her. Only me!
 She was taken care of, not sexually
 And if you infer that they were using her
 I will shove you under the goddamn bed!
 Around the world with stones and shells
 The nicest one I lost
 Around the world without a boat
 And just a quote from Frost
 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
 A lovely crossing on
 Around the world
 The world around the attic wall
 Around the world there isn't room
 For every special thing
 Around the world you choose a few
 To make the music sing
 A silver mask from a masquerade
 Around and round I twirled
 You tack them up
 So when you go
 The world will be the one you know
 A birdcage I plan to hang
 I'll get to that someday
 A birdcage for a bird
 Who flew away
 Around the world