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Dawn • Get Ready • Saffron Dormouse and Lizzy Bee • Harlequin Hare • Old Blind Mole • Magician Moth • No Solution • Behind The Smile • Fly Away • Aranea • Sitting In A Dream • Waiting • Sir Maximus Mouse • Dreams Of Sir Bedivere • Together Again • Watch Out For The Bat • Little Chalk Blue • The Feast • Love Is All • Homeward

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1. DAWN
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2. GET READY
Wake up wake up it's time to get up the sun is shining Now's the day we've all been waiting for Hurry hurry Don't be lazy stop your dreaming Here's a dream come true that you can keep for evermore. get ready, get ready, get ready now! Bats and badgers, gnats and gadflies, waterboat men, Wake up for the greatest day of all Ants and dormice open your eyes mobilize now! get yourselves together for the feast and for the ball
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3. SAFFRON DORMOUSE AND LIZZY BEE
Saffron Dormouse: Pots and pans all spick and span hanging there in a tidy row, careful Tom don't scuff up the floor please don't make me scrub it again today we're on our way to the ball. Lizzy Bee: All day long I'm working like a slave but you'll never hear me complain in the sunshine or the rain. Saffron Dormouse: I've been asleep all Winter and now the spring is here, it's time for you to hear my song. Lizzy Bee: (hope it's not too long.) Saffron Dormouse: Every room is clean and bright now we'd better be on our way, Tom make sure you've got everything lock the door and give me the key, let's go to see the show at the ball. Lizzy Bee: Back to work tomorrow, but tonight going to eat and dance 'till I fall at the feast and at the ball.
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4. HARLEQUIN HARE
I'm Harlequin Hare, I haven't got a care I'm going to the ball. Bang on your drum, tell everyone come, come all. And part of my style, is making you all smile. There's Nathaniel Gnat, in his cavalier hat, and a twinkle in his eye .By the light of the moon the ladies all swoon and sigh .And part of his style is making them all smile. Grasshopper goes wherever his nose will tell him to go. Fancy and free and letting his feelings show. And oh what a sigh there'll be at the ball tonight.
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5. OLD BLIND MOLE
Old Blind Mole it's home sweet home down in his hole Old Blind Mole he don't me or you. Old Blind Mole he don't need gasoline or coal Old Blind Mole he don't need me or you. self contained Always been the same Obeys no rule Nobody's fool (he's so cool). Old Blind Mole he never robbed and he never stole Old Blind Mole he don't need me or you
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6. MAGICIAN MOTH
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7. NO SOLUTION
Don't start complaining now the damage is done and you know how don't make a fuss you're not so bad if you don't want to look so sad. Don't drink the water it's bad for you Don't drink the water it's sad for you can't drink it anymore. I don't mind if you don't care about your house or what you wear but there times affect us all whether you hop or fly or crawl. Don't drink the water it's bad for you Don't drink the water it's sad for you can't drink it anymore. There's a way to make it clean it doesn't have to be a dream what was once can be again I know how but I don't know when. Don't drink the water it's bad for you Don't drink the water it's sad for you can't drink it anymore.
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8. BEHIND THE SMILE
Behind the smile the stranger lies beware of what is in his eyes looks like fun but he's after you It's not so funny what that smile can do. Behind the smile there lies a face filled with cunning but he's full of grace comes on friendly but he's deadly too beware or he'll take care of you. an innocence so well rehearsed and so naive that's all you ever see Behind the smile you cannot see Lies another full of mystery Don't be fooled by that friendly grin the jaws of death are going to call you in.
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9. FLY AWAY
It's hard to tell you why you'll have to wait and see your wings will grow and then you'll know the joy of being free to float upon the air and drift along the breeze you'll greet a friend then rise again so high above the trees. And I can show you how but you'll have to make your own way. Patience now, tomorrow you can fly away. Heartbreakers all when you arrive at the Ball. Oh how you sway, you're going to steal hearts away. I know it's not so bad for I was once like you, enjoy yourself there's nothing else that you can say or do, a most of all be calm, be beautiful and shy, your time will come, and like the sun, you'll reach up to the sky.
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10. ARANEA
Oh Aranea, you're so divine It's hard to take my eyes of you you really shine. Oh Aranea, you seem so wise and every time I look into your spider eyes my hopeful heart just flies. Time is flying too, so brush your hair and lace your shoe You know the ball won't wait for you tonight. Oh Aranea, you're proud and tall. When you descend on silken threads down to the Ball, you'll look the best of them all.
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11. SITTING IN A DREAM
I'm just passing time before the ball playing my guitar I don't have to be where I don't want to be at all maybe I'll go far going nowhere sitting in a dream... ......in a dream Sitting in a landscape full of sighs dream away the day making up a tune about the blueness of the skies this is where I'll stay going nowhere sitting in a dream... ......in a dream Watching as a red and white balloon sails across my mind in between the images that drift along my tune smile s they unwind going nowhere sitting in a dream... ......in a dream
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12. WAITING
I'm waiting her for something good to come my way and I've been waiting patiently all day. The sunshine begins to stretch across the sky, I'm just waiting, oh I am waiting. People that are restless, moving here and there, somehow they seem to go nowhere. So I remain and watch the world go by, I'm just waiting, oh I am waiting. I don't know what I'm waiting for but that's all right. Every thing I need is in my sight. I'm free as every kingfisher should be, and I'm just waiting, oh I am waiting
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13. SIR MAXIMUS MOUSE
He sits in seclusion will take no intrusion into his world they all bow their faces from men in high places to the office girl. He's Sir Maximus Mouse and he lives in a house bought with pieces of paper if a deal's up for grabs or there's cash to be had he's the taker. He's facing a crisis a drop in cheese prices force him to sell playing with other lives he makes sure that he survives, they can go to hell. He's Sir Maximus Mouse and he lives in a house that he bought from the Devil if they question his shares then his books will show they're on the level. With luxury living his charity giving is a clever scheme enormous donations help public relations foster the dream. He's Sir Maximus Mouse and he lives in a house that could pass for a palace like a fortress in which like a demon or witch he can vanish!
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14. DREAMS OF SIR BEDIVERE
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15. TOGETHER AGAIN
I can't recall if there's a ball should we be there? It seems to me we ought to be with someone somewhere. But give us another and pardon me brother for laughing It's good to be back together again. The feeling's good but I know I should be going from here But give us another Say where you going brother without me? I'm glad that we were together again.
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16. WATCH OUT FOR THE BAT
Watch out for the Bat now or that'll be that now the price you will pay is death don't be ashamed to fear that is what makes you care makes you beware. Don't worry about it you'll find you're without it the Bat's going to take your life he's going to take your wife the Bat's going to make you plead make you bleed. So make no mistake there you'll end up as steak (rare) so always be on your guard for the life is hard death is a breath away every day
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17. LITTLE CHALK BLUE
There's no one here that feels no pain deep inside we're all the same and when the light begins to end we meet a friend Some people symbolize the hope and fears beyond our eyes and now you shine so clear and true believe in you Fly on, little chalk blue fly on, I'm following you and everybody in the world is following too fly on When you're looked behind a door you need your freedom there much more and by your wings we'll learn to see you hold the key Fly on, little chalk blue fly on, I'm following you and everybody in the world is following too following you etc.
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18. THE FEAST
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19. LOVE IS ALL
Everybody's got to live together all the people got to understand love your neighbor like you love your brother come and join the band. All you need is love and understanding ring the bell and let the people know we're so happy and we're celebratin' let your feelings show. Love is all, love is all, can't you hear the call Love is all you need, love is all you need at the Butterfly Ball Ain't you happy that we're all together at the Ball in nature's countryside and although we're wearing different faces nobody wants to hide Love is all and all is love and it's easy yes it's so easy at the Butterfly Ball where love is all and it's easy. All you need is love and understanding ring the bell and let the people know we're so happy and we're celebratin' let your feelings show. Love is all yes love is all at the Butterfly Ball Love is big love is small love is free love is all at the Butterfly Ball. When your back's to the wall when you're starting to fall you get something to lean on Love is everything it can make you sing at the Butterfly Ball Love is all love is all love is all etc.
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20. HOMEWARD
Now the Ball is over it's time to get back home I need a star to guide me I'm feeling so alone feeling so alone. Morning mustn't find me sleeping in the sun now the dawn is breaking a new day just begun new day just begun. Glow worm lightning darkness fighting guiding one and all. homeward going moving, flowing, homeward from the Ball. Wings are sadly folding here comes another day oh I'd like to stay for ever and dance the night away oh dance the night away.
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