《To a Sleeping Beauty》歌词

[00:00:00] To a Sleeping Beauty - Jimmy Dean

[00:00:10] Dear daughter I tiptoed to your room tonight

[00:00:15] And I looked down at you smiling in your sleep

[00:00:20] You were so lovely my heart nearly broke

[00:00:24] And I thought how very much like sleeping beauty a little girl is

[00:00:31] When I tuck you in at night

[00:00:33] I never know how old you'll be when you wake

[00:00:36] One evening you crawl on your dad's lap

[00:00:38] And throw your arms around his neck

[00:00:41] The next morning you might be

[00:00:42] Much too grownup for that sort of thing

[00:00:47] You're so quickly approachin' my awkward age

[00:00:50] Too young to drive a car and yet too old to be carried

[00:00:53] Into the house half asleep on daddy's shoulder

[00:00:59] I have a secret that I've never told you Sleeping Beauty

[00:01:04] You're going on a very exciting trip

[00:01:07] You'll travel from yesterday all the way to tomorrow

[00:01:12] It's a rapid journey and you'll travel light

[00:01:15] Leavin' behind your measles mumps

[00:01:18] Freckles bumps bubblegum and me

[00:01:24] I promise not to feel too hurt when you discover

[00:01:27] That the world is more important than your daddy's lap

[00:01:34] Yesterday you were blue-jeaned and pig-tailed

[00:01:36] The neighborhood's best tree-climber

[00:01:39] Tomorrow you'll be blue-organdie and pony-tailed

[00:01:43] And you'll view the world from a loftier perch a pair of high-heel shoes

[00:01:50] Yesterday you could mend a doll's broken leg with a hug

[00:01:56] Tomorrow you'll be able to break a young man's heart with a kiss

[00:02:01] Ha ha yesterday you could get lost

[00:02:04] One aisle away from me in a supermarket

[00:02:08] Now I have to worry about losin' you

[00:02:10] Down another aisle to some strange young man

[00:02:14] You see just at the point where your growing pains stop mine begin

[00:02:21] Yesterday you were kind of a pain in the neck when you were around

[00:02:27] Tomorrow you'll be an ache in my heart when you're not

[00:02:31] Tomorrow you'll lay aside your jump rope and tie up the telephone lines

[00:02:35] And that little boy that used to push you in the mud

[00:02:38] Well he'll fight to set out a dance with you

[00:02:42] The clock upstairs is countin' the minutes for you

[00:02:47] And the sky upstairs is savin' it's brightest stars

[00:02:52] And the sun is waitin' with it's shiniest day

[00:02:58] Oh I can't expect you to live in a dollhouse forever

[00:03:03] Sooner or later the butterfly sheds it's cocoon

[00:03:06] And the smallest bird must try it's wings

[00:03:11] But when you grow up and out of my arms

[00:03:14] When you finally get too big for my shirts

[00:03:18] I'll still recall how you used to scatter dust and dolls

[00:03:22] And partially through every room in the house

[00:03:26] But you spread sunshine too

[00:03:30] The dust is settled your mom picked up the dolls

[00:03:35] But the sunshine will always fill the corners of our hearts

[00:03:42] So here I am talkin' in your sleep

[00:03:49] Because well if you saw this look on my face you'd laugh

[00:03:55] And if I spoke with this lump in my throat I'd cry

[00:04:02] Yeah honey when I looked at you tonight you were a Sleeping Beauty

[00:04:08] So I tiptoed over and I kissed you

[00:04:11] You didn't wake up I knew you wouldn't

[00:04:15] According to the legend

[00:04:16] Only the handsome young prince can open your eyes

[00:04:20] And I'm just the father of a future bride

[00:04:25] So you sleep on pretty thing

[00:04:27] Tomorrow you'll awake and you'll be a young lady

[00:04:31] And you won't even realize

[00:04:32] That you've changed courses in the middle of a dream

[00:04:37] But you might notice this little change in me

[00:04:41] I look a little different somehow a little sadder

[00:04:46] A little wiser but a whole lot richer

[00:04:53] Tonight I kissed a princess and I feel like a king