What time is it?

 

What time is it?

I don't know Suzie,

When is your family going to go home!

Have you ever had one of those communities

Where there is that one family 

That just always has a problem child.

In Vallejo

It was Suzie who was that child.

She got into trouble everyday

Of her life,

And her mother Norma 

Was beside herself

What to do with this child.

Her husband went to prison

For the girl, she just had to have

The box with the last name

Thier name was Gillette

And Suzie saw that box 

With the Gillette razors.

She just could not resist.

She probably had Ken help her 

But it was her father who went 

San Quentin for her desire.

Such a demanding child.

She was stealing those boxes

Of magazines, the Zions 

She wanted to be the one 

To stand there on the corner

And get the nickel for them.

But those came with a man with a bible

Not just a child 

Swindling the community

They were really sore

To find it was Suzie

That is how Carol and her meet

She got two black eyes

Hence black-eyed Susan

Even her mother forgot her real name.

In Carol she found a lifetime

Victim with a mother who was easy

To use for herself 

Too bad, Ken got sent off

To one of those schools

For bad boys 

While she got caught 

With the razors

They said if it happened again

She did not think they would

Go after her father 

But he was not unknown for his own

Problems as a orphan child 

From some German boat

That did not make it through

Angel Island immigration.

Suzie spent the rest of her life

Pretending to be the family 

Of the other girls 

They were also Mormon 

As her mother was before

She ran off with a married man

Norma said she did not know 

At first but Ken was her stepson 

Not her own, it was Suzie's 

Unexpected arrival that caused

Concern for her own people

She moved in with him 

And kept him from visiting the other woman

Who also had a daughter shortly afterwards.

Meanwhile, her she was with a problem child

Thievery and lying were her style.

She got her brother in trouble

Her father in prison 

And here she was as a pregnant

Teenager out of the night.

Who expected that from her?

Everyone said it was going 

To happen, especially 

After she went off 

And had another one 

She had not meant it to happen

But one night the girls 

Had taken her out on the town

And she met him backstage

He was so good on stage

And even better backstage.

Well, at least she had another white one

Unlike some of the other girls

One could not tell anymore

These guys were showing up in Oakland

And no one knew where they came from

Now Suzie was going to have a child

Of her own, while they waited for 

Her father to come home.

What was she going to do?

Saint Louis Missouri!

She found out that the guys 

That her daughter was hanging 

Out with were more than forthcoming

Information on who it was to be blamed

The old not me syndrome.

His name was Edgar!

And his family were from 

St Louis like in the movies.

Suzie was not pleased, 

She had just gotten to 

The new town 

Where her mother had a new job

Working at a Dentist

Who spoiled rotten sister

Got to sit there and play 

In the back with the needles

While Norma answered the phone

Sweet Candy did not have to go to school

And Carol had gone and gotten married

What time is it?

It was time for her to get herself 

Out of here but there she was in the hospital

In Missouri somewhere in nowhere

With her body being riddled by pain

And then the screaming started

She had not known it would be a boy!

She wanted a girl to play with

Otherwise, she would have to get married.

Not a boy and a redhead.

When she got her hands on Eddie!

He was not supposed to give her up.

But her mother knew!

She decided to put him up for adoption

That way she could go back home.

And pretend to be a virgin

For her mother.

Her father had died in prison

Some sort of prison riot.

Now mom needed her at home.

She had her hands full with Candy

Whose real name was Sandy

Because her daddy was born 

In a sanitorium because his mother

Lost her mind when she was an unwed girl

Ken ran away from school 

And was hiding out in the everglades

Florida the land of sunshine

But he was miserable he said

He left behind his girl friend

What a mess!

Just because her and Eddie 

Could not get married.

Not yet, not until 

His mother died 

Then he would be free.

Well, his son was now in someone

Else home instead of his.

Born in Summer of 1960.

She heard that Carol had lost

Her child, it came out dead.

Then she found out that Ken

Had been playing with her again

She was waiting for her war hero

She had gone all the way over

To Asia to get married to him

He was hiding out in Korea!

And then she was at home

With her feet up and waiting.

What did she expect?

Ken was not going to put up 

With that behavior.

Wonder what he did?

No wonders he ran away.

Well, well, look who is special

Carol does not get to go jail.

Having an abortion is against the law.

But no, hers is a special case.

She gets to stay at a nursing hospital

Under supervision.

She took care of that.

She found a uniform 

And went in to visit her 

Now her son will have 

A good life 

And her next child

Will belong to her 

Suzie had her ways.

And Carols first born

Was hers to have and own.

The girl had other things 

In mind than being owned.

And that other thing 

That arrived in the family 

Called Alona!

Mom, mom!

Oh, it was Gails

Could not wait 

For Ken to return 

So, mom got remarried

And a new face in the family

She is so going to make 

Carol pays her for her life

She was never going to leave

Her husband alone

And when her son

Is old enough she is going 

To have him marry

The little princess

Princess had other ideas

Man, what a child!

Her mother said she was a problem child

This one is just too perfect.

Kensing was his name

Not Kenneth

And her was now cursed

With three sisters no four!

His father left him in charge.

But that is not easy

With a mom who can't see straight

Nor a new dad he hates

And boys he does not want to know

Ken and Gail just do their own thing.

Gin Collins is what she was drinking

When Collin-Alexander was conceived.

He is a big, big man now.

Meanwhile the little female cygnet,

Is still running from them all.

Just like Alice!

With her uncles all turned around,

And the rest of the world gone mad!

Jack and Jill went up the hill,

Justine and Janet came running down

All the way from Capitol Hill

Where they have been doing damage

Three or four generations of the same family

Its the Pitz's