To a Sleeping Beauty-Jimmy Dean

[ti:To a Sleeping Beauty] [ar:Jimmy Dean] [al:Big Bad John] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]To a Sleeping Beauty - Jimmy Dean [00:10.57]Dear daughter I tiptoed to your room tonight [00:15.09] [00:15.83]And I looked down at you smiling in your sleep [00:18.17] [00:20.51]You were so lovely my heart nearly broke [00:22.48] [00:24.19]And I thought how very much like sleeping beauty a little girl is [00:28.73] [00:31.78]When I tuck you in at night [00:33.38]I never know how old you'll be when you wake [00:35.49] [00:36.26]One evening you crawl on your dad's lap [00:38.12]And throw your arms around his neck [00:40.06] [00:41.03]The next morning you might be [00:42.40]Much too grownup for that sort of thing [00:44.63] [00:47.18]You're so quickly approachin' my awkward age [00:50.61]Too young to drive a car and yet too old to be carried [00:53.81]Into the house half asleep on daddy's shoulder [00:56.24] [00:59.50]I have a secret that I've never told you Sleeping Beauty [01:02.38] [01:04.02]You're going on a very exciting trip [01:06.41] [01:07.94]You'll travel from yesterday all the way to tomorrow [01:11.65] [01:12.69]It's a rapid journey and you'll travel light [01:14.91] [01:15.85]Leavin' behind your measles mumps [01:18.45]Freckles bumps bubblegum and me [01:22.06] [01:24.42]I promise not to feel too hurt when you discover [01:27.09]That the world is more important than your daddy's lap [01:30.86] [01:34.17]Yesterday you were blue-jeaned and pig-tailed [01:36.78]The neighborhood's best tree-climber [01:38.51] [01:39.85]Tomorrow you'll be blue-organdie and pony-tailed [01:42.74] [01:43.37]And you'll view the world from a loftier perch a pair of high-heel shoes [01:48.96] [01:50.85]Yesterday you could mend a doll's broken leg with a hug [01:54.42] [01:56.19]Tomorrow you'll be able to break a young man's heart with a kiss [01:59.53] [02:01.57]Ha ha yesterday you could get lost [02:04.72]One aisle away from me in a supermarket [02:06.87] [02:08.18]Now I have to worry about losin' you [02:10.28]Down another aisle to some strange young man [02:12.59] [02:14.76]You see just at the point where your growing pains stop mine begin [02:19.29] [02:21.35]Yesterday you were kind of a pain in the neck when you were around [02:25.36] [02:27.02]Tomorrow you'll be an ache in my heart when you're not [02:30.10] [02:31.29]Tomorrow you'll lay aside your jump rope and tie up the telephone lines [02:35.42]And that little boy that used to push you in the mud [02:37.83] [02:38.37]Well he'll fight to set out a dance with you [02:40.78] [02:42.84]The clock upstairs is countin' the minutes for you [02:45.84] [02:47.15]And the sky upstairs is savin' it's brightest stars [02:50.36] [02:52.17]And the sun is waitin' with it's shiniest day [02:55.20] [02:58.33]Oh I can't expect you to live in a dollhouse forever [03:01.91] [03:03.35]Sooner or later the butterfly sheds it's cocoon [03:06.21] [03:06.87]And the smallest bird must try it's wings [03:09.31] [03:11.93]But when you grow up and out of my arms [03:14.66]When you finally get too big for my shirts [03:16.85] [03:18.56]I'll still recall how you used to scatter dust and dolls [03:22.61]And partially through every room in the house [03:24.99] [03:26.42]But you spread sunshine too [03:27.97] [03:30.28]The dust is settled your mom picked up the dolls [03:33.88] [03:35.80]But the sunshine will always fill the corners of our hearts [03:39.75] [03:42.83]So here I am talkin' in your sleep [03:46.44] [03:49.00]Because well if you saw this look on my face you'd laugh [03:53.09] [03:55.19]And if I spoke with this lump in my throat I'd cry [03:59.05] [04:02.77]Yeah honey when I looked at you tonight you were a Sleeping Beauty [04:06.43] [04:08.05]So I tiptoed over and I kissed you [04:10.33] [04:11.70]You didn't wake up I knew you wouldn't [04:13.71] [04:15.56]According to the legend [04:16.75]Only the handsome young prince can open your eyes [04:19.54] [04:20.60]And I'm just the father of a future bride [04:22.77] [04:25.33]So you sleep on pretty thing [04:27.08] [04:27.89]Tomorrow you'll awake and you'll be a young lady [04:30.53] [04:31.16]And you won't even realize [04:32.48]That you've changed courses in the middle of a dream [04:34.82] [04:37.19]But you might notice this little change in me [04:39.53] [04:41.41]I look a little different somehow a little sadder [04:45.91] [04:46.54]A little wiser but a whole lot richer [04:51.17] [04:53.79]Tonight I kissed a princess and I feel like a king