Flower Drum Song movie - The Other Generation lyrics
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What are we going to do about <br>
The Other Generation?<br>
How will ever communicate <br>
Without communication?<br>
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You can't account for what they'll say or do.<br>
And what peculiar thoughts they think<br>
They never reveal to you.<br>
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A very discouraging problem is <br>
The Other Generation.<br>
They want to lead a life that's all their own.<br>
Perhaps we ought to let them,<br>
Forsake them and forget them!<br>
But then we'd only find ourselves alone.--With one another!--<br>
I don't believe we'd like to be alone!<br>
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What are we going to do about <br>
The Other Generation?<br>
They never take the blame for one mistake.--Oh no!--<br>
Their parents are responsible<br>
For ev'ry mistake they make!<br>
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A very discouraging problem is <br>
The Other Generation.<br>
And soon there'll be another one as well!<br>
And when our out of hand sons<br>
Are bringing up our grandsons,<br>
I hope our grandsons give their fathers hell!--Can't wait to see it!--<br>
I hope our grandsons give their fathers hell!<br>
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(Reprise)<br>
Well, the more I see of grownups<br>
The less I want to grow.<br>
The more I see what they have learned <br>
The less I want to know.<br>
And yet we've got to all grow up,<br>
There's no place else to go.<br>
I wonder why we're all so poor<br>
And they've got all the dough!<br>
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What are we going to do about <br>
The Other Generation?<br>
How will ever communicate <br>
Without communication?<br>
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When we are using words the modern way,<br>
They're much too big to try to dig <br>
The colorful things we say.<br>
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If we could take over the training of <br>
The Other Generation,<br>
We know we could improve them quite a lot.<br>
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But they will never let us.<br>
They stay the way they met us,<br>
And so we're simply stuck with what we've got.--You can't improve them.--<br>
The kids are simply stuck with what they've got.<br>
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What are we going to do about <br>
The Other Generation?<br>
How are we going to stop them when<br>
They start an explanation<br>
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Of "What is used to mean to be a kid!"<br>
The clean and wholesome fun they had,<br>
The innocent things they did!<br>
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They all had a wonderful childhood in <br>
The Other Generation.<br>
The games they played were bright and gay and loud.<br>
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They used to shout "Red Rover,<br>
Red Rover please come over!"<br>
They must have been an awful droopy crowd when they were younger.<br>
They must have been an awful droopy crowd.<br>
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