Malvina
Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems
On My Own Feet
Notes: words and music
by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1959 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1987.
Chorus:
I'll get there on my own feet,
On my own feet, on my own feet,
I'll get there on my own feet,
In a little while.
I'll bump a little and jump a little,
And zig zag back and forth.
And when I'm going east and west
I'll get there South and North.
(Chorus)
If I go in a straight line
And don't go round and round,
I'll never know what's going on,
I'll never see the town.
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Every window is full of things,
Every garden is, too,
All the people along the way
Stop for a How de do.
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Run, run, run in a straight line,
That's not much of a game.
I'll hop a little and stop a little,
And get there just the same.
(Chorus)