Piano Practicing

Lyrics for Piano Practicing

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a soprano But my mother said, "My dear, you've got to practice your piano No soprano's in demand but a piano's always grand And grand pianos in a band make money, darling" And so each afternoon when I come home from school I practice like a bloody fool You can't imagine all the awful things I play I could never see a friend I'd have to practice without end And as the time was dripping by I watched the clock without denial I look out the window at the sky I wished so fervently that I could go outside and play Instead of wasting every day learning something that Without a doubt I could have really done without It was such a bore And I could hear the boy next door was having fun And that was something that I'd really never done When I was a little girl I wanted to be a soprano But I had to sit and practice on my rotten old piano Playing major scales and than I played the minors once again Now up and down the keys I play and out of these I play a third, do other exercises, never any new surprises Girl you keep your fingers wrong, what a sound All I wanted was to sing and not to make the rafters ring With my old piano, practicing I would have broke my back I sing, but hated every minute of the keyboard I devote That is why today I'm a soprano, but the sight of a piano Makes me shot before I cannot play a note, oh