A Fairy Tale Lyrics - Chumbawamba

Chapt. two - guess who? manfred the great 

The great king bashed down his goblet on the oaken table as kings do when they want more wine. everyone was silent. 'minstrel the noise of chattering women grates on my ears. play me some music,' he bellowed. 

A fairy tale handed down 

I believed it, didn't we all 

A man, a hero, walks on to the scene 

Unquestionably good at everything 

First he does battle with various creatures 

Which compared to his goodness are evil monsters 

Having made dragons extinct forever 

He murders a couple of the castle guards 

He enters the castle quite unnoticed 

And tells the girl he'll be back for her 

'and so I shall make her mine forever' 

But runs into trouble and is taken prisoner 

Is taken to the big bad, bad, bad, baddy 

Baddy tells hero how goodness is finished 

And has him strapped up to a slow-death device 

But he escapes as the rope starts to burn through 

The blade crashes down on the block where his head was 

With a sword from the wall he finishes the castle guards 

A lamp gets knocked over in the panic and a fire starts 

A race against time to rescue the princess 

To get past the baddy to get out of the castle 

Out of the window where the horses are waiting 

The couple ride off and the whole place goes up in flames