Name: The Crazy Grand Dame
Duration: P00H03M52S
Description: This one is inspired by the central character from Keeping Up Appearances, a British comedy from the 1990s with its fair share of American fans.

The Crazy Grand Dame

from Hey Blondie, How’s It Going? by Grottomatic

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This one is inspired by the central character from Keeping Up Appearances, a British comedy from the 1990s with its fair share of American fans.

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There’s a social climber I know who takes every “no” for a “yes”
She’s the cheekiest snob in the world, overbearingly status obsessed
She has to be the centerpiece of every crowd
In everything she does, she’s flamboyant and loud
She has to do away with those who would bring her shame
Most everybody knows her as the crazy grand dame

CHORUS:
She may live like a middle-class woman, but that ain’t what she wants to be
She will not rest until she’s carried out her delusional fantasy
The crazy grand dame is determined to succeed
The crazy grand dame is an unrelenting weed
The crazy grand dame is the problem of the day
The crazy grand dame makes the people run away

She has an outfit for every daily activity, grand or plain
She uses fancy vocabulary to glamourize the mundane
She’s always seeking upper-crust elbows to rub
Forcing her way into each exclusive club
She spends her husband’s paycheck with no traces of care
That guy’s a big reminder of how life is not fair

CHORUS

She is so wrapped up in herself that she is unable to realize
That she is an excruciating pain in the hind that almost everyone can’t help but despise
Little does she know that others consider themselves better off without her
She is so vain she probably thinks this song is about her

(Well, in that respect, she’s right.)

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from Hey Blondie, How’s It Going?, released August 18, 2018
Words and music by Tim Stevens. Special thanks to Harold Snoad, Patricia Routledge, and Carly Simon.

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