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Froggies and Dreamers

from Lane's Recycled Fairy Tales by ,

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Froggies and Dreamers

Her name was Matilda,
And I should have billed her,
For retrieving her golden ball.

I was a green frog then.
I sat on a log then,
All day and did nothing at all.
“Till I started dreamin’,
Of bowls of ice cream and,
Castles way up on a hill.
We made a quick deal,
And that’s why I feel,
Like I wish I were swimming there still.

Chorus

Froggies and dreamers,
Lovers and schemers,
Don’t know when to leave well enough alone.
They call me the Frog Prince,
The down in the Bog Prince.
I sit here all day and I moan.

She was my sweet savior,
“Till she changed her behavior,
And threw me against that cold wall.

I grew arms and feet then.
I sat on a seat then,
‘Cause I was feeling thirty sizes too tall.

She said I was human,
I looked like Paul Newman,
And would I please be her man.
She smiled so sweetly,
She laughed so completely,
I told her I will if I can.

Repeat Chorus

Oh, when I was a tadpole,
The world was my mudhole.
I never knew sorrow or pain.

I’d float there all day long,
Humming my frog song,
Through sunshine or shadow or rain.

I had no idea,
This princely career,
Would make me feel lonely and strange.
I’m out of the water,
With this old king’s daughter,
And I don’t know how I can change.

Repeat Chorus.

I have a suggestion,
Which grew from a question,
I asked myself yesterday.

“Would I have been better,
If I’d never met her,
Or is it my fault I’m this way?”

I thought for a while,
And walked for a mile,
To the swamp I never forgot.
Listen all you peepers,
You are your own keepers.
Don’t try to be something you’re not.

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,
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You, you, you.

For now is the New Day. ... more

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