Paul Gordon - Fool-Hearted Girl lyrics

Daddy, Daddy, what do you think?
The postman has just come
First, my story is accepted fifty dollars!
A la! I'm an author!

I feel like I'm becoming somebody now
A proper person

Second a letter from the college secretary
I'm to have a scholarship for two years
That will cover board and tuition
Daddy, now I won't be such a burden
I'll have all the money I need

It's out of the question!

What do you mean i shouldn't accept?
Mr Girl Hater i don't understand you at all
And I never will

You are so completely tenacious
Tough and bull headed i've got news for you
You can make a fuss if you want to
But, I refuse to give up what I've earned
No! Bridges may be burned!

Miss Abbott!

Dear Daddy Long Legs
I will not be treated like an item you own

And you can tell your secretary man
That if you say one thing more
I won't accept the monthly allowance either
But will wear myself into a nervous wreck
Tutoring stupid freshmen
Yours with a mind completely and
Irrevocably and world-without-end made up

Now, Daddy, I must sleep
But, I will think of you please, Daddy
Let me do what a fool hearted girl must do

A perfectly awful day
I just received your letter
I'm ashamed of my irrational behaviour
A perfectly awful day
But look at it from my side
Your dependence is all I can depend on

Please, Jerusha Abbott
You'll know the truth in the end

Yours jervis- Daddy-
Pendleton Long Legs Smith
Who writes another letter than
He will not send
And whose cowardly behaviour is
Becoming a trend