Jimmy Dean - To A Sleeping Beauty

Dear Daughter
I tiptoed in your room tonight
And I looked down at ya 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' the awkward age, too young to drive the 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 pony 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

Heh, heh, 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 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 jump rope and tie up the telephone lines
And that little boy that used to push you in the mud
Well, he'll fight to sit out a dance with ya

The clock upstairs is countin' the minutes for ya
And the sky upstairs is savin' its brightest stars
And the sun is waitin' with its shiniest day

Oh, I,I can't expect you to live in a dollhouse forever
Sooner or later, the butterfly sheds it's cocoon and the smallest bird must try it's 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 ya tonight you were a Sleeping Beauty
So I tiptoed over and I kissed ya, 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 the 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 a little change in me
I'll 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

Jimmy Dean - To A Sleeping Beauty

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To A Sleeping Beauty (Grace) by Jimmy Dean

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Jimmy Dean - To A Sleeping Beauty - 1962

Jimmy Dean Sleeping Beauty

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