My mother had warned me that I would be punished if I ever were to lose But how was I to know what your father hadĪlso hid in his pocket?! You see, when I had inherited that garden, Witch: I thought I had been more than reasonable, and that we all might NA: But the witch refused to tell him any more of his sister. I should have laid a spell on him right there. She took one look at my beautiful garden,Īnd told your father that what she wanted, more than anything in the You see, your mother was with child and she hadĭeveloped an unusual appetite. Witch: In the past, when you were no more than a babe, your father brought NA: The old enchantress went on to tell the couple that she had placed a Wife: We have sold our last loaf of bread.

Of his own, and concerned that all efforts until now had failed. Well, at least that is what he believed-he was eager to have a family NA: Because the baker had lost his mother and father in a baking accident. Lucinda: Here, I found a little tear, Cinderella!įlorinda : Put it in a twist.Ĭinderella : Mother said be good,Ĭinderella: What's the good of being goodįlorinda : Not that tight! Wife: And save some of those sweets for Granny!įlorinda: Hurry up and do my hair, Cinderella! [LRRH has been compulsively eating sweets at the Baker's house she now

Jack: But Milky-White is my best friend in the whole world! Nor money, and no choice but to sell her while she can still command You have picked them out again in two hours' time, you shall go to theĬinderella (falling into a trance): Ahhh. Stepmother: I have emptied a pot of lentils into the ashes for you. In a little tent Oh, and just like the river, Ive been runnin Ever since Its been a long. NA: Cinderella's stepmother had a surprise for her. [Two knocks on the Baker's door Wife opens door it is Little Red Riding Jack's Mother: It's a she! How many times do I have to tell you? Only Jack: A warm environment might be just what Milky White needs to produce (to Jack) You foolish child! What in heaven's name are you doing with the Jack's Mother: I wish my son were not a fool. Jack, on the other hand, had no father, and his mother. NA: All three were beautiful of face, but vile and black of heart. (They chortle with laughter musically, then fall about out of control.) Stepsisters, Stepmother: -and dance before the Prince?! I still wish to go You still wish to go She still wants to go NA: -a woman with two daughters of her own. NA: -and her father had taken for his new wife. Lucinda (Over): What, you wish to go to the Festival?! Stepmother: You, Cinderella, the Festival?įlorinda (Over): What, you, Cinderella, the Festival? Stepmother (to Cinderella): You wish to go to the Festival? Jack (Overlapping): I wish you'd give us some milkīaker, Wife (Overlapping): I wish we might have a child. Jack: I wish my cow would give us some milk.Ĭinderella: I wish to go to the Festival. Come Back To Me lyrics: you say you gotta go and find yourself you say that youre. But it has perhaps branded me as an old man before my time.Home | Links | Lyrics | Media | Notes | Songlist | Synopsis | Vote | I wish to go to the Festival. Now I’m finding it gets used all over the world, by all sorts of churches it seems to be as accessible to a traditional church as it is to a house church, and I’m excited by that. It just makes his sacrifice all the more personal, all the more amazing, and all the more humbling.Īs I was thinking through this, I just began to sing the melody, and it flowed in the sort of way that makes you think you’ve pinched it from somewhere! So the melody was pretty instant, but the words took quite a bit of time, reworking things, trying to make every line as strong as I could. And what was my part in it? Not only was it my sin that put him there, but if I’d lived at that time, it would probably have been me in that crowd, shouting with everyone else ‘crucify him’. Nevertheless, I’d been meditating on the cross, and in particular what it cost the Father to give up his beloved Son to a torturous death on a cross. But I don’t go home at the end of a busy day and put on a hymns album! So I don’t think of hymns as where I’m at musically at all! But I distinctly remember getting this feeling one day that I was going to write a hymn! Now, like most people, I am familiar with hymns – they form part of my church background, and I love the truth contained in many of them. I’d already written quite a few songs for worship, but all in a more contemporary worship style, drawing from my own musical background. Writing this song was an unusual experience for me.

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