Song, Chant, Poetry, Stories and Satire for the Pagan Community

This entry made: 01/03/2000

Title: Robin Hood
Lyrics by: T.J. Burnside
Tune: original
Date: 1988
Source:
Recorded on: "Station Break," Technical Difficulties (Fesarius Publications, 74 Madison Ave, Wakefield, Mass 01880)
Subject: Children

Children always seem to have a sparkle in their eye
That no grownup ever has, did you ever wonder why?
They can turn a backyard garden into 12th century England
I'm Robin Hood, I'm Marion, let's fall in love
And you'll save me with your arrow and I'll always be your maiden
We'll live happily forever after!
But no grownup could ever see how real it is to them
And none would admit that he could remember when
He would turn an oak branch into a rocket ship to Mars
That could sail to just about anyplace
We'll take off from a launching pad, just you and I
And we'll sail off into outer space!
But when children grow up, they lose their fantasies,
Grownups don't do things like that, they call it make-believe.
Things like that just don't exist, a dream, a thought, a song
But if they think it's make-believe, that's where they are wrong!
They'll never understand just how the children feel,
To the grownups it is make-believe; to the children it is real.
To turn a 20th century backyard into 12th century England
You're Robin Hood, I'm Marion, let's fall in love
And you'll save me with your arrow and I'll always be your maiden
They'll never see how we feel:
To the children it's real.