Jimmy Dean To a Sleeping Beauty Lyrics:
Dear daughter I tiptoed to your room tonight And I
looked down at you smiling in your sleep You were
so lovely my heart nearly broke And I thought how
very much like sleeping beauty a little girl is
When I tuck you in at night I never know how old
you'll be when you wake One evening you crawl on
your dad's lap and throw your arms around his neck
The next morning you might be much too grownup for
that sort of thing You're so quickly approachin'
my awkward age Too young to drive a car and yet
too old to be carried Into the house half asleep
on daddy's shoulder I have a secret that I've
never told you Sleeping Beauty You're going on a
very exciting trip You'll travel from yesterday
all the way to tomorrow It's a rapid journey and
you'll travel light Leavin' behind your measles
mumps freckles bumps bubblegum and me I promise
not to feel too hurt when you discover That the
world is more important than your daddy's lap
Yesterday you were blue-jeaned and pig-tailed the
neighborhood's best tree-climber Tomorrow you'll
be blue-organdie and ponny-tailed And you'll view
the world from a loftier perch a pair of high-heel
shoes Yesterday you could mend a doll's broken leg
with a hug Tomorrow you'll be able to break a
young man's heart with a kiss Ha ha yesterday you
could get lost one aisle away from me in a
supermarket Now I have to worry about losin' you
down another aisle to some strange young man You
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see just at the point where your growing pains
stop mine begin Yesterday you were kind of a pain
in the neck when you were around Tomorrow you'll
be an ache in my heart when you're not Tomorrow
you'll lay aside your jumprope and tie up the
telephone lines And that little boy that used to
push you in the mud Well he'll fight to set out a
dance with you The clock upstairs is countin' the
minutes for you And the sky upstairs is savin' its
brightest stars And the sun is waitin' with its
shinest day Oh I can't expect you to live in a
dollhouse forever Sooner or later the butterfly
sheds its cocoon and the smallest bird must try
its wings But when you grow up and out of my arms
when you finally get too big for my shirts I'll
still recall how you used to scatter dust and
dolls And partially through every room in the
house but you spread sunshine too The dust is
settled your mom picked up the dolls But the
sunshine will always fill the corners of our
hearts So here I am talkin' in your sleep Because
well if you saw this look on my face you'd laugh
And if I spoke with this lump in my throat I'd cry
Yeah honey when I looked at you tonight you were a
Sleeping Beauty So I tiptoed over and I kissed you
you didn't wake up I knew you wouldn't According
to the legend only the handsome young prince can
open your eyes And I'm just the father of a future
bride So you sleep on pretty thing tomorrow you'll
awake and you'll be a young lady And you won't
even realize that you've changed courses in the
middle of a dream But you might notice this little
change in me I look a little different somehow a
little sadder a little wiser but a whole lot
richer Tonight I kissed a princess and I feel like
a king
Lyrics: To a Sleeping Beauty, Jimmy Dean [end]