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Mummy's Got Strange Friends

from I Have So Many Friends by Spottiswoode

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A true story about growing up in London with an American opera singer for a mother. A different version of the song was featured on the Spottiswoode & McMahon album, S&M.

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A Senator's daughter now living abroad
She damaged her liver, still she drinks when she's bored
A Communist actor who plays violin
Fire burns in his eyes though his hair's getting thin
A yoga instructor returned from the East
A Polish conductor, a Birmingham priest

MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS

There's the lodger upstairs, an anorexic nurse
She says she's much better but she's looking much worse
And the tragic young wife of a millionaire
She spent all his money cos he had an affair
There's only one person on whom they depend
She lives in my house so the fun never ends

Cos MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY’S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS

And everyone knows when Daddy comes home
They all run away like the plague
He offers them Scotch, they say "Good Heavens! Gosh!
How did it get so late?"

When I come home from school I can never be sure
Who'll be telling their secrets collapsed on the floor
Or out in the garden finishing their tea
Mummy is smiling as she notices me
"Do you remember Heidi and Sven?"
I shake my head and she smiles once again

Cos MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY’S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS

credits

from I Have So Many Friends, released August 1, 2023
Spottiswoode: Vocals and guitar
Jonny Gee: Double Bass and vocals
Matti Müller: Guitar and vocals
Angi Stricker: Vocals and percussion

© Jonathan Spottiswoode, J Spot Music ASCAP

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Spottiswoode & His Enemies New York, New York

For over 2 decades, Spottiswoode & His Enemies have been a constantly self-reinventing New York institution. The IMA winners recently earned three more nominations for their 7th record, LOST IN THE CITY, “an immersive theater-of-the-mind love letter to New York”.

Spottiswoode's songs appear in numerous TV shows and films including Either Side Of Midnight for which he also wrote the screenplay.
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