Stephen Sondheim
“I Had a Lot of Trouble with My Mother...”
[STEPHEN SONDHEIM, spoken]
I had a lot of trouble with my mother in getting along with her
And she, she, she didn't really want a child
But she was very much in love, I think, with my father
And even obsessed with him
So when he left her, which he did for another woman
The wrath of God had nothing on her
And, um, she unfortunately tried to make me pay for the sins of my father
And so it was not a very good relationship
And if it hadn't been for the Hammersteins
I really don't know where I would be
If I'd even be alive