Oh Sister Lyrics - Dan Bern

They say you taught me how to talk 

i bet you wish you taught me how to stop 

you're far away now 

i wish i could take a walk with you someplace 

you explained me to our parents 

english wasn't their first language 

they spoke german 

hated germans 

confusing times 

Oh sister 

down midwest backseat bumpy streets 

you sang my beatles songs with me 

i sang your broadway melodies 

bad harmonies 

and where would willie mays have been 

without jackie robinson? 

and who can say what i'd been 

without you to lead the way 

After i showed some guys i could drink 

you picked me off the lawn, i think 

and led me to the kitchen sink 

where i got rid of it 

some nights i lay awake in awe 

as squinting through the dark i saw 

you peeling off your teenage bra 

the door slightly ajar 

Oh sister 

you lived just across the hall 

for eighteen summers 

eighteen falls 

until you went away to that 

weird college in wisconsin 

and where would willie mays have been 

without jackie robinson? 

and who can say what i'd been 

without you to lead the way 

Trust yourself 

and you can do anything 

this i give to you 

May your heart purr like a bumblebee 

may all your backyards have a tree 

may you always be hiv negative 

i hope you meet a nice guy who 

treats women better than i do 

i don't even care if he's a jew or not 

Oh sister 

i remember in the temple hall 

at our dear father's funeral 

you sang like a nightingale 

one of his own songs 

and where would willie mays have been 

without jackie robinson? 

and who can say what i'd been 

without you to lead the way 

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