To A Sleeping Beauty
Jimmy Dean

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


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