She lives on Pony Street    And they should scatter flowers at her feet    But when they come calling I think it's appalling    They're sober and they're polite    They're deeply respectful when I would expect them    To keep her out all night    That little martinet    Will get her own way yet    If you need instruction in mindless destruction    I'll show you a thing or two    You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me    For you to view       Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying    From the hole in your leopard skin tights I can tell you've been spying    But your generation confesses before it transgresses    Those Super-8 movies of daddy in your disco dresses       If you're going out tonight    I won't wait up    Reading "Das Kapital"    Watching "Home Shopping Club"    While you're flogging a dead horse    All the way down Pony Street    Where you live after a fashion    All the way down Pony Street    The life and the soul of every indiscretion    That lives on, that lives on, that lives on    Pony Street       Daughter, oh daughter, you know I will love you forever    But spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather    For you and your cartoon threat do no good to resist me    For I am the genuine thing but for you it's just history       If you're going out tonight    How can you be sure    Where you lay your pretty head    Mother may have been before    So you're flogging a dead horse    All the way down Pony Street    Where you live after a fashion    All the way down Pony Street    The life and the soul of every indiscretion    That lives on (x5)   She lives on Pony Street (x2)   She lives on, she lives on (x2)