To A Sleeping Beauty Lyrics - Jimmy Dean

Dear daughter, I tiptoed in your room tonight 

An' I looked down at you smilin' in your sleep 

You were so lovely, my heart nearly broke 

An' 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 evenin' you crawl on your dad's lap 

An' throw your arms around his neck 

The next mornin' you might be much too grown up 

For that sort of thing 

You're so quickly approachin' the awkward age 

Too young to drive the car an' 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 goin' on a very excitin' trip 

You'll travel from yesterday all the way to tomorrow 

It's a rapid journey an' you'll travel light 

Leavin' behind your measles, mumps 

Freckles, bumps, bubblegum an' 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 an' pig-tailed 

The neighborhood's best tree-climber 

Tomorrow, you'll be blue organdie an' pony-tailed 

An' 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 

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 growin' 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 

An' tie up the telephone lines 

An' that little boy that used to push you in the mud 

Well, he'll fight to set out a dance with you 

The clock upstairs is countin' the minutes for you 

An' the sky upstairs is savin' its brightest stars 

An' the sun is waitin' with its shiniest day 

Oh, I, I can't expect you to live in a doll house forever 

Sooner or later, the butterfly sheds its cocoon 

An' the smallest bird must try its wings 

But when you grow up an' out of my arms 

When you finally get too big for my shirts 

I'll still recall how you used to scatter dust an' dolls 

An' 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 

An' if I spoke with this lump in my throat, I'd cry 

Yeah, honey, when I looked at you tonight 

You were a sleeping beauty 

So I tiptoed over an' I kissed you 

You didn't wake up I knew you wouldn't 

According to the legend 

Only the handsome young prince can open your eyes 

An' I'm just the father of the future bride 

So you sleep on pretty thing 

Tomorrow, you'll wake an' you'll be a young lady 

An' you won't even realize 

That you've changed courses in the middle of a dream 

But you might notice this little change in me 

I look a little different somehow, a little sadder 

A little wiser but a whole lot richer 

Tonight, I kissed a princess an' I feel like a king