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Cinderella Revisited

from Lane's Recycled Fairy Tales by ,

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Cinderella

Her name was Cinderella,
Her real name was Ann.
She was interested in this prince fella,
His name was Prince Dan.

Dan was having a party.
Dan was having a ball.
She wanted to go there,
She said that was all.

Chorus

I’m a fairy god mother,
I’m a fairy god queen.
I’m the best godmother
You’ve ever seen.
I turn pumpkins to coaches,
I turn gerbils to men
And if you’re not happy
I come back again.

As, you need a dress girl.
You need some clothes.
You need a coachman,
And powder on that nose.

One snap of my fingers,
One blink of my eye,
You’re ready to go now –
At midnight say good bye.

Repeat Chorus

Ah, when she left that evening
She was really so sad.
But Prince Dan came the next day,
It wasn’t so bad.

They’ve been married for three years,
Been happy for two.
Now Prince Dan’s found another,
What can she do?

Repeat chorus

My dear godmother,
Please do this for me.
Make him some sludge
At the bottom of the sea.

Make him an insect.
Make him a rock.
Make him the lint
Inside a dirty sock.

My dear Cinderella,
You don’t really want that.
I could make him a pigeon,
I could make him a bat.

But then there’d be no way
For you to progress
You see, I’m thinking of you
And your happiness.

You see, I used to be married
To a fairy god man.
Till he found a god girl –
Her name was Suzanne.

He left the next morning,
He lightened his load.
I turned him that evening
Into a fair god toad!

And it was three years later
On a very dark road,
I saw there before me
A very flat toad.

I knew in an instant
It was my god man.
Is that what you want
For your Bonnie Prince Dan?

Repeat Chorus

My dear Cinderella,
What can I say?
I wish there was something I could do
For you right away.

But you know fairies do magic
And people do work.
The next time you marry
Don’t marry a jerk!

Repeat Chorus.

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from Lane's Recycled Fairy Tales, released April 28, 2013

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Barry Lane Vermont

I write songs about kindness for children and songs about hope and justice for adults.

I love Pete Seeger, and believe, as he did, that a single song can help change the world by uniting hearts and minds.


We are the mixed fruit of one tree,

Live in peace and unity.

Forget the old
embrace the new,

Less me, me, me,
more

You, you, you.

For now is the New Day. ... more

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