James McMurtry - Iolanthe lyrics

Your mother used to take the cure She kept plastic on the furniture in the living room You used to tell your friends If you never saw that place again it's be too soon But your college beau Didn't seem so bad So you brought him home To Mom and Dad Like you're supposed to do But he wouldn't account for himself And he got along better With the hired help Than he did with you. No big loss, I don't suppose Brush it away like a fly off a rose We're all bound to miss a time or two Iolanthe Your father always held his ground He never liked you hanging round with the lesser kind He suffered not the weak And he was never loath to speak his twisted mind. He liked to watch an evening pa** Clinking the ice in his bourbon gla** while you played your scales With eyes that burned right through He would say he always knew you were bound to fail. (chorus) Shake it off and let it go Brush it away til the light it shows We can't help what came before Iolanthe Well who's that standing there? Watcha been doing lately? Your clothes not long outta style You gave us all quite a scare But the years were hardly wasted Only missing for a while Don't sweat the losses, let em go Toss em all out where the tall gra** grows We're all bound to get our share Iolanthe