Annie lyrics

Annie`s up at seven on a work day
Brewing up a cup of peppermint tea
Gathering her papers and lesson plans
She grabs her keys
Teaching arithmetic and Africa
Geology and girl`s basketball
All the kids in her class
Will tell you she`s the best
But she`s heard other teachers in the hall saying

CHORUS:
`What are we going to do about Annie?
Pretty girl like her shouldn`t be alone
If she took our advice, dressed up real nice
She`d find a man to take her home.`

Mondays come with questions of couples
Where and with whom did you go?
Avoiding the personal pronoun
She hopes it doesn`t show
Shopping with her lover in the city
Two women holding hands don`t get a stare
If the kids at school knew, what would they do
Would they hate her? Why should they care? Tell me

CHORUS

Never getting too close to a student
Never letting out too much of her life
Keeping her delights and disappointments
Tucked out of sight
Annie takes herself to the Christmas party
The principal whispers with a smile
`You`re vivacious and bright, if you play your cards right
There`re some men here tonight worth your while` thinking

CHORUS

Work that you love is hard to come by
The kids she could never bear to lose
So she makes conversations out of silences
And half-truths
But at night by the fire with her lover
She looks out at the wind-driven snow
And imagines the day when she`ll look in their faces
And tell everybody she konws--she`ll tell `em

LAST CHORUS:
Don`t you worry about Annie
She don`t lie awake and pine
Got love to fill her heart, flowers growing in the garden
Annie`s doing just fine
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