Welcome to Robbie's Songbook

Introduction

American Lives

Big Brother

The Early Riser

Full Moon Over Managua

Galileo

Hard To Say Goodbye

House of Cards

If Wishes Were Horses

Islander's Lament

Keg of Brandy

Land of Liberty

Love Knows No Bounds

Man From Connemara

The Mistress

Out On the Ocean

The Road to Dunmore

The Singer

So Near

There Is Hope

Two Nations

The Turning of the Tide

When the Moon is Full

The Winning Side

You're Not Irish

The Mistress

“I’d like to have a mistress,” I told my wife one day
“To help me through the middle years, it would suit a man my age”
And to my great astonishment, she never said a word
She just looked at me as if to say “Now don’t be so absurd.”
“I’d like to have a mistress, no more than twenty one
With a figure like a goddess, it would keep me feeling young.
She’d make me tea in the afternoon, served on a silver tray
Dressed only in her birthday suit or a skimpy neglige.”

“I’d like to have a mistress, who was tender young and chic,
We’d make love in the afternoons, maybe once or twice a week.
I’d leave the office early and I’d go round to her flat
We’d always have champagne on ice as we’d take a bubble bath.
I’d like to have a mistress who would know just what to do
She’d have read the Perfumed Garden and the Kama Sutra too
And the more I think about it, the more I think it wise “
My wife just looked at me and said, “Why don’t you advertise?”

“I’d like to have a mistress,” so ran the ad next day
“The work is light, the hours are short and we can discuss the pay”
I waited by the phone all day but I got just one reply
When she came round for an interview I could not believe my eyes
At last I had a mistress who was every dream come true
She was sexy, blond and beautiful, ‘though she was twenty-two
My wife gave her approval, she didn’t seem to mind
I hardly could believe my luck, they hit it off just fine.

It was nice to have a mistress, it seemed so civilized
It gave a touch of spice to life, there was always some surprise
But then one afternoon, I found a note upon her door
Saying our affair was over, she’d not see me anymore
I’d like to have a mistress who’d be a little more content
And not go running off on me, not saying where she went
One I could rely on, who would stay with me through life
And not leave me with a note to say she ran off with my wife.

Never Learned to Dance - Green Linnet, GLCD 1124
Words and Music, Robbie O'Connell © 1988
Slievenamon Music (BMI)


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