Mother Knows Best Lyrics - Richard Thompson

So you think you know how to wipe your own nose 

So you think you know how to button your clothes 

You udon't know shit 

If you hadn't already guessed 

You're just a bump on the log of life 

'Cos Mother knows best 

She tells everybody she ws born in a ditch 

She backcombs her hair till she looks like a witch 

Wolves in her train, serpents suckle at her breast 

Don't forget to wsh behind your ears 

'Cos Mother knows best 

O you lost your job, well ain't that a shame 

Got nobody but youself to blame 

You deserve everything you get for such carelessness 

And don't eat your peas off the knife 

O Mother knows best 

So your baby's hungry 

So your baby's sick 

Don't make babies, that'll do the trick 

Put another string of barbed wire in your little love nest 

It's better than a cardboard box 

Mother knows best 

She got a zombie army to serve her well 

She got a thousand bloodhounds from the gates of Hell 

she got a hundred black horses with sulphur and coal on their breath 

And she rides the unbelievers down 

Mother knows best 

She says, bring me your first-born 

I'll suck their blood 

Bring me your poor 

I can trample in the mud 

Bring me your visionaries 

I can puthout their eyes 

Bring me your scholars 

I'll have them all lobotomised 

Mother knows best 

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