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Madame Claire

from Cat Doorman Songbook by Cat Doorman

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lyrics

I’m the protégé of Madame Claire
Madame Claire, she sits just over there
Thumbing through her manners catalogues
I sit over here and she sits over there
And they want to marry me in the space of a year
So they’ve signed on Madame Claire

It seems to me an awful lot to appease
To hope for more from a girl with a wicked tongue
And scabby knees
But they say she’s a bargain,
Having helped girls far more far gone
Though I would glow to watch her go and never beg her pardon!

“Oh child! Oh child!” she’ll say, “You vex me!
Oh child, is there some place you’d rather be?”
And I say, “You don’t know the half!”
But you spoil the child when you spare the staff
Spoil the child when you spare the staff

Madame Claire’s face suggests an active
Mental landscape where she’ll steal
Or perhaps I project this incredible sense of longing that I feel
To escape this courtly setting and so begin forgetting
Every curtsey and tea, every princess and pea
And my future begetting!

Oh Madame! Oh Madame! You won’t catch me!
Oh Madame there is some place I’d rather be
For all the manners in you’re keeping
I’ll sneak out while you’re sleeping
And by the break of day, I’ll be far away

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from Cat Doorman Songbook, released January 26, 2013
Lyrics, music and vocals by Julianna Bright
Piano arranged and performed by Nick Reddel

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Cat Doorman Portland, Oregon

Cat Doorman is Julianna Bright, a musician, an artist, a mom and a big believer in the power of art, story and song to make us kinder, braver, better humans. Her songs for kids have been awarded the Parents' Choice Silver Honor and become a mainstay on Sirius Satellite's Kids' Place Live. ... more

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