In the daytime I'm just momma, washing dishes, mopping floors.
I have no right to wish for things or long for something more.
My duty lies in washing clothes and drying little tears.
The same thing I've been doing now for close to 20 years.

But...When the kids are tucked away in dreamland fast asleep
and the house is oh so quiet, down the basement stairs I creep.
I take the box marked Sears Robuck from the shelf it sits upon.
Then I take out my ballet shoes and slowly put them on.

Here I belong to no one. There are no chains on me.
My flight is free and endless, I can live my fantasies.
For the moonlight is my music, the night wind is my song.
When I take out my ballet shoes and slowly put them on.

I'm a princess dressed in satin, yellow ribbons in my hair.
Waltzing with a handsome prince, some country's throne the heir.
We dance across a marble floor until the morning's dawn.
When I take out my ballet shoes and slowly put them on.

Now today, I've dryed a hundred tear and washed a ton of clothes.
The kids have got the chicken pox. What next!... Lord only knows!
I'll try to keep on going and till bedtime I'll be strong.
Then I'll take out my ballet shoes and quickly put them on.

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