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Forest Song
00:46
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Wandering through a forest, the edges long gone
As the wind through the trees lets out an ancient yawn
Like a melody, a gentle lover's song
And if you listen hard enough, you just might believe you belong
How glad I am to find you here lost and all alone
A stranger in a stranger land than you have ever known
You have found your own and not your own
But if you linger long enough, you just might believe that it's home
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What thou seest when thou dost wake
Do it for thy true love take
Love and languish for its sake
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
In thy eye that shall appear
When thou wakest, it is thy dear.
Wake when some vile thing is near
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PEASEBLOSSOM
You spotted snakes with double tongue
Thorny hedgehogs, be not here
Newts and blindworms, do no wrong
Come not near our fairy queer
PUCK
3, 4
PEASEBLOSSOM & PUCK
LULLA LULLA LULLA LULLA LULLABY
LULLA LULLA LULLA LULLA LULLABY
NEVER HARM NOR SPELL NOR CHARM
Come our lovely fairy nigh
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Up and Down
00:41
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(spoken)
When thou wakest, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid
(sung)
Up and down
Up and down
I will lead them up and down
Up and down
Up and down
I am feared in field and town
Goblin, lead them up and down
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Gentle Lovers' Remedy
01:02
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On the ground
Sleep sound
I'll apply
To your eye
Gentle lover, remedy
When thou wakest
Thou takest
True delight
in the sight
of thy former lover's eye
And as the country proverb known
That everyone should take their own
In your waking, shall be shown
That love is love is love, still
So naught shall go ill
And all will be well
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Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me
Say "nightie night" and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars fading but I linger on, dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear
Just saying this
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars fading but I linger on, dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear
Just saying this
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me
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Loves' Song
00:42
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OBERON
Now until the break of day,
Through this house each fairy stray
TITANIA
To all the lovers' beds will we,
Which by us shall blessed be
OBERON
So shall all the couples three
Ever true in loving be
OBERON & TITANIA
Trip away, make no stay
Meet me back by break of day!
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8. |
Give Me Your Hands
01:39
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If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend,
If you pardon, we will mend,
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long.
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends!
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CJ Higgins Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
They/Them Pronouns
Queer theatre artist who writes songs sometimes.
