Montage, Part Three- Mother

"Montage, Part Three: Mother" is the eighth musical number in A Chorus Line, and performed by the whole company.

Lyrics
Diana: I mean, I didn't want him to die or anything, but...

Don: The summer I turned fifteen, I lied about my age so I could join AGVA, you know, The night club union. Cause I could make sixty dollars a week Working these strip joints Outside of Kansas City. I worked this one club for about eight weeks straight And I really became friendly with this stripper. Her name was Lolita Torres, with her dynamic twin forty-fours. She really took to me, after all, we did share the only dressing room and she did a lot of dressing! Anyway, she used to come and pick me up and Drive me to work nights. Well, the neighbors would all be hanging outside of their windows And she'd drive up in her big pink Cadillac convertible And smile. I'd come tripping out with my tap shoes and tux and we'd go driving down the block, her long red hair blowing in the wind.

Al: Goodbye twelve, goodbye thirteen, All: Hello love Maggie: Why do I pay for all these lessons? Dance for grandma, dance for grandma! All: Ba, ba da da, ba da da Bebe: My God, that Steve McQueen's real sexy, Bob Goulet out, Steve McQueen in! All: Ba ba da da ba da da Cassie: You cannot go to the movies until you finish your homework All: Ba da da Al: Wash the car All: Ba da da Mike: Stop picking your nose All: Ba da Maggie: Oh darling you're not old enough to wear a bra You've got nothing to hold it up All: Ba da da, ba da da ba da da Mark: Locked in the bathroom with Peyton Place! All: Ba da da, ba da da, ba da Val: Tits! When am I gonna grow tits? Bobby: If Troy Donahue can be a movie star, then I can be a movie star.

Don: So all the guys wanted to know all the hot details of our affair, but actually she was going with this...

Judy:...little brat! That's what my sister was, A little brat! And that's Why I shaved her head I'm glad I shaved her head! But then my father lost his job And we had to leave El Paso And we wound up in St. Louis, Missouri! Well, it was the furthest thing from my mind To be a dancer, But my mother would embarrass me Cause she used to pick me up from School with all those great big yellow rollers in her hair No matter how much I begged her And she'd say: "What are you, ashamed of your own mother?!" But the thing that made my daddy laugh so much Was when I used to jump and dance around the living room...

Maggie: Please take this message to mother from me Carry it with you across the blue sea... Mother, oh mother, wherever you go, Your Maggie is missing you so. Mother, oh mother, wherever you go, Your Maggie is missing you so.

Al: Dad would take mom to Roseland She'd come home with her shoes in her hand. Diana: Mama fat, always in the kitchen cooking all the time. Sheila: Darling, I can tell you now Your father went through life with an open fly. Val: Tits, where are my tits? Cassie: Listen to your mother, those stage and movie people got there Because they're special. Greg: You take after your father's side of the family. The ugly side. Paul: Wait until your father gets home! Don: Swear to God and hope to die.