Modern Day Woman
Music and Lyrics by L.Gillam

Ms. Maple is a good girl, so simple and so plain
Seems to wear that “teacher” label like a big ol’ ball and chain
The pride of Johnson High School, she’s the best they’ve ever had
But if you catch her on a Friday night, you’ll see the good girl’s just gone bad

She’s a modern day woman, her life’s no open book
She’s breaking every rule and she has got a brand new look
She’s a modern day woman, she can make it on her own
But that doesn’t mean that she’s all alone

She’s Marnie on the weekends, when she lets her hair hang loose
Forgets all about her students and she drops that teacher noose
Her first stop’s at the corner for smokes and red, red wine
She primps and primes for hours, and then she meets her friends at nine

Turns all the heads at Retro, desired by every man
She may not even choose one, though she knows full well she can
She parties till the wee hours, then grins a sly farewell
Just don’t ask her for the details, ‘cause she’ll never kiss and tell

When Monday comes she’s at work after breakfast and a jog
Her colleagues sneer, “Poor Marnie, spent the weekend with her dog.”
She laughs at their assumptions, so bitter and oblique
For her weekends have no bearing on what she does all week