If the Tables Were Turned

If our tables was turned

You'd be scolded and spurned

But you don't let it spoil your day

I'd be going to class, past a whistling lass

Busy scrubbing the passageway

And you'd give me a smile, forget for awhile

That there's Ms. Minchin to keep at bay

If our tables was turned

You'd be nice as a cold buffet

If our tables was turned

Far as I was concerned

I'd be kindly as I could be

I'd be worked off my feet

Just a muffin to eat

Leaves you hungry to meet with me

'Cause I calls you by name, don't put you to shame

Sometimes I brings you a cuppa tea

If our tables was turned, I'd have buckets of pedigree

And I'd have a dad who's bona fide

And an officer beside, and he travels with me far and wide

And we'd have a different life indeed

But we'd be the same within our hearts

We're counterparts

And that's how friendship starts, its guaranteed

If our tables was turned

Once me lessons was learned

I'd be back in a flash to 'ere

I'd bring Minchin the post, serve the girls tea and toast

Then we'd meet while the coast is clear

Though we'd (As far as I can see)

Have a different life indeed (We'd still be you and me)

Still, we'd be the same

Within our hearts

We're counterparts

And that's how friendship starts, it's guaranteed

If the tables were turned (If our tables was turned)

I'd be scolded and spurned (Far as I was concerned)

I'd be ordered about all day (I'd be nice as a cold buffet)

I'd be worked off my feet (I'd be going to class)

Next to nothing to eat (Wondering who was the lass)

'Til I'm hungry to meet and play (Busy scrubbing the passageway)

As I think we agree

You're perfect as me

And vice-versa I have to say

Let the tables be turned

We'll find a way

If we could turn our tide