“Ten Years After I Was Born...”

Lyrics

[STEPHEN SONDHEIM, spoken] Ten years after I was born, my parents were divorced And my mother got custody of me And bought a house in Doylestown, Pennsylvania I was an only child, and both my parents were working parents So because I had no sort of childhood companion And my mother was a celebrity hunter Ahe knew slightly the Oscar Hammersteins And they lived about three miles away So she sort of foisted me on them because they had a son my own age Actually a year younger. Jimmy Hammerstein And as a rеsult Dorothy and Oscar Hammerstein becamе my surrogate parents During my teen years And that's essentially how I became a songwriter Because I wanted to do what Oscar did I've often said if he had been a geologist I probably would have been a geologist