Bum Steer vocals by Colin Garvey

What if Sleeping Beauty was visited by a couple of fortune hunters? And what if those fortune hunters got into an argument? Colin Garvey did a super job with this song, and I raise a glass to him. Many thanks to you, my friend.

(c)2012 T.A.Beckett

You said she was a beauty.
A righteous babe, you said.
And I fear this woman here
Is not alive but dead.

I thought you said she was a princess.
Kiss her and you’ve got it made.
I don’t know if I’ll make a go.
She looks likes my mother, I’m afraid.

I don’t think I’ll believe you any more.
I thought we’d settled the score.
That woman in Kent told me to get bent
And then she showed me the door.

I don’t think I will listen to you.
You’re as good for me as the flu.
Once more, I fear, this is a bum steer.
I don’t want to be friends with you.

She looks so peaceful there.
Wrinkled face, grey hair.
The years behind have not been kind
And she doesn’t look so fair.

I never believed the tale.
To me it was one epic fail.
Youth never keeps while she sleeps
And her beauty has not gone stale.