The Oldest Orphan In The John Grier Home Lyrics - Daddy Long Legs [original Off-broadway Cast Recording] - Daddy Long Legs Cast

[Jerusha Abbot]: 

A perfectly awful day 

The first Monday of every month 

Every floor scrubbed 

Every chair dusted 

A perfectly awful day 

Every bed without a wrinkle 

Every hair combed on 97 orphans 

Poor Jerusha Abbot 

Has to bear the brunt of it all 

Poor Jerusha Abbot 

The oldest orphan in the John Grier home 

A perfectly awful day 

The trustees come to visit 

Taking tea breaks 

Having reports written 

They hurry away in the night 

For houses in the city 

And I watch them with 97 orphans 

Poor Jerusha Abbot 

Never breaking free of this place 

Poor Jerusha Abbot 

The oldest orphan in the John Grier home 

Little Tommy Dylan comes singing up the stairs 

(As Tommy Dylan) 

Jerusha Abbot you are wanted 

In the office and you better hurry up 

(As Jerusha) 

Who wants me? 

(As Tommy Dylan) 

Mrs. Libbot in the office 

And I think she's really mad 

(As Jerusha) 

Where did I go wrong? 

Were the sandwiches not thin enough? 

Were there shells in the nutcakes? 

Where did I go wrong? 

Did a lady visitor see the hole 

In Susy Hawthorne's stocking? 

A perfectly awful day 

A silhouetted figure 

Tall and gangly 

Shrouded in the darkness 

I cannot see his face 

But the headlights in the driveway 

Cast a shadow sharp against the wall 

Looking like a daddy longlegs 

The biggest one that I have ever seen 

A creeping crawling daddy longlegs 

And it makes me laugh 

On this awful day 

Me, Jerusha Abbot 

The oldest orphan in the John Grier home