The long and the short of it

I have been growing out my hair for about 6 years now.
 

She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy

I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright

I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, I don't know

 

 

And now it is time

 

 

It's not for lack of bread, like the Greatful Dead, darlin'

Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair

 

 

For a hair cut!

 

Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer

(I know, messy girl, this is at the end of our Thanksgiving evening)
 

Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy
 

And I'm nervous about it.

Hair, flow it, show it
 

It's not that I haven’t' worn my hair short
 

Long as God can grow it, my hair

 

 

Most of my adult life my hair has been short. Like really really short.
 

Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees

Give a home to the fleas

A home for fleas, a hive for the buzzing bees

 

 

And I've so enjoyed having my hair super long

 

A nest for birds, there ain't no words

For the beauty, splendor, the wonder of my hair
 

But now, now it is time to take it up a notch
 

Flow it, show it

Long as God can grow, my hair

I think

 

 

I want long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty

Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen

 

 

Because I'm starting to feel a little like Rapunzel right about now.

 

 

Knotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braided

Powered, flowered and confettied

Bangled, tangled, spangled and spahettied

 

 

And if you find a hair in your soup, don't pull to hard.
 

Oh say, can you see my eyes if you can

Then my hair's too short
 

It's most likely still attached to my head. 

 

Long as God can grow it my HAIR!!!

I believe Hair was written by Galt MacDermot for the musical of the same name.