When I'm Five

When I’m five, I will wash my face and hands all by myself Well, I’m five, I will chew and spit tobacco like my grandfather, Jones Cause I’m only four and five is far away When I’m five, I will read the magazines in mummy’s drawer When I’m five, I will walk behind the soldiers in their Mayday Parade Cause I’m only four and growing up squat too fast Yesterday was horrid day cos Renee kicked my shin and Mommy says “If I am good” she’ll let me go to school in August daddy shouted loud at mommy and I dropped my toast at breakfast and I laughed when Bonzo licked my face because it ticklеd I wonder why my daddy cries and how I wish that I was nearly fivе Na na na na, na na na na na When I’m five, I will catch a fly and eat it and I won’t be sick When I’m five, I will walk in Cargo’s laugh-in church and marry my mum And I’ll let my daddy do the washing up If I close one eye the people on the side can’t see me I get headaches in the morning and I rode on Freddie’s tricycle and everywhere was funny when I ran down to the sweetshop and I fell and bleeded out my knee everybody sobbing me I saw a photograph of Jesus and I asked him If he’d make me five I saw a photograph of Jesus and I asked him If he’d make me five I saw a photograph of Jesus and I asked him If he’d make me five …Na na na na, na na na na na Na na na na, na na na na na Na na na na, na na na na na Na na na na, na na na na na…