To A Sleeping Beauty-Jimmy Dean

[ti:To A Sleeping Beauty] [ar:Jimmy Dean] [al:Jimmy Dean'S Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]To A Sleeping Beauty - Jimmy Dean [00:10.41]Dear daughter I tiptoed to your room tonight [00:15.00] [00:15.67]And I looked down at you smiling in your sleep [00:17.99] [00:20.34]You were so lovely my heart nearly broke [00:22.30] [00:23.99]And I thought how very much [00:26.20]Like sleeping beauty a little girl is [00:28.55] [00:31.33]When I tuck you in at night [00:32.86]I never know how old [00:33.85]You＇ll be when you wake [00:35.14] [00:35.83]One evening you crawl on your dad＇s lap [00:38.08]And throw your arms around his neck [00:39.67] [00:40.60]The next morning you might be [00:42.01]Much too grownup for that sort of thing [00:44.25] [00:46.73]You＇re so quickly approachin＇ [00:48.52]My awkward age [00:49.37] [00:50.06]Too young to drive a car and [00:51.89]Yet too old to be carried [00:53.46]Into the house half asleep on daddy＇s shoulder [00:56.05] [00:58.95]I have a secret that I＇ve never [01:00.89]Told you Sleeping Beauty [01:02.02] [01:03.19]You＇re going on a very exciting trip [01:05.96] [01:07.21]You＇ll travel from yesterday [01:09.56]All the way to tomorrow [01:10.84] [01:11.95]It＇s a rapid journey and you＇ll travel light [01:14.40] [01:15.11]Leavin＇ behind your measles mumps [01:17.47]Freckles bumps bubblegum and me [01:21.37] [01:23.60]I promise not to feel too hurt when you discover [01:26.32]That the world is more importan [01:28.19]Than your daddy＇s lap [01:29.82] [01:33.20]Yesterday you were blue-jeaned and pig-tailed [01:35.90]The neighborhood＇s best tree-climber [01:37.41] [01:38.80]Tomorrow you＇ll be blue-organdie [01:40.89]And ponny-tailed [01:41.72] [01:42.36]And you＇ll view the world from a loftier [01:44.25]Perch a pair of high-heel shoes [01:47.83] [01:49.77]Yesterday you could mend [01:50.99]A doll＇s broken leg with a hug [01:53.10] [01:55.02]Tomorrow you＇ll be able to [01:56.47]Break a young man＇s heart with a kiss [01:58.48] [02:00.44]Ha ha yesterday you could get lost [02:03.41]One aisle away from me in a supermarket [02:05.54] [02:07.00]Now I have to worry about losin＇ you [02:08.86]Down another aisle to some strange young man [02:11.34] [02:13.41]You see just at the point [02:15.57]Where your growing pains stop mine begin [02:18.02] [02:19.98]Yesterday you were kind of a pain in the neck [02:22.67]When you were around [02:23.61] [02:25.56]Tomorrow you＇ll be an ache in my heart [02:27.81]When you＇re not [02:28.87] [02:29.79]Tomorrow you＇ll lay aside your jumprope [02:31.90]And tie up the telephone lines [02:33.69]And that little boy that used to push you in the mud [02:36.27] [02:36.78]Well he＇ll fight to set out a dance with you [02:38.94] [02:41.28]The clock upstairs is countin＇ the minutes for you [02:44.26] [02:45.48]And the sky upstairs is savin＇ its brightest stars [02:48.86] [02:50.46]And the sun is waitin＇ with its shinest day [02:53.56] [02:56.48]Oh I can＇t expect you to live in a dollhouse forever [03:00.27] [03:01.43]Sooner or later the butterfly sheds its cocoon [03:05.02]And the smallest bird must try its wings [03:07.48] [03:10.07]But when you grow up and out of my arms [03:12.84]When you finally get too big for my shirts [03:15.02] [03:16.60]I＇ll still recall how you used to scatter dust and dolls [03:20.34]And partially through every room in the house [03:22.83] [03:24.38]But you spread sunshine too [03:26.22] [03:28.18]The dust is settled your mom picked up the dolls [03:31.65] [03:33.69]But the sunshine will always fill the corners of our hearts [03:37.51] [03:40.69]So here I am talkin＇ in your sleep [03:44.18] [03:46.76]Because well if you saw this look [03:49.49]On my face you＇d laugh [03:50.92] [03:52.87]And if I spoke with this lump in my throat I＇d cry [03:56.87] [04:00.22]Yeah honey when I looked at you tonight [04:02.25]You were a Sleeping Beauty [04:04.08] [04:05.54]So I tiptoed over and I kissed you [04:07.66] [04:09.10]You didn＇t wake up I knew you wouldn＇t [04:11.41] [04:12.98]According to the legend [04:14.08]Only the handsome young prince can open your eyes [04:16.85] [04:17.95]And I＇m just the father of a future bride [04:20.09] [04:22.62]So you sleep on pretty thing [04:24.60] [04:25.17]Tomorrow you＇ll awake and you＇ll be a young lady [04:27.83] [04:28.42]And you won＇t even realize [04:29.74]That you＇ve changed courses in the middle of a dream [04:31.92] [04:34.41]But you might notice this little change in me [04:36.55] [04:38.55]I look a little different somehow a little sadder [04:43.04] [04:43.58]A little wiser but a whole lot richer [04:48.29] [04:50.76]Tonight I kissed a princess and I feel like a king