The Slipper and the Rose
Music: Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman
Lyrics: Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman
Why Can't I Be Two People?
Any simple peasant is afforded the ability in love
To win or lose
While I of the nobility
Am robbed of the facility to choose
Any serf or servant can, by natural selection
Elect himself a mate if she's amenable
But due to my high breeding I'm continually acceding
To demands I find increasingly untenable
I wish to know
I demand to know
Why can't I be two people?
Why can't I live two roles?
Why can't one of me perform all the cloying amenities?
While the other me, twin brother me
Be a free and happy soul!
Why can't I be two people?
Split myself right in half
Then I could satisfy and mollify and pacify and qualify
While the other me would have a helluva healthy laugh! Hah!
The custom of royalty in referring to one's self
Is to naturally employ the royal "we"
We are very happy, we are very sad
We are bored and suffer from ennui
For a royal prince there's no such word as "me"
It's always "we"
So rightfully I should be two or three
Don't you agree?
Why can't I be two people?
Why can't I play two parts?
Why can't one of me endure
The appalling formalities
While the other me, twin brother me
Have a free and happy heart!
If I could be two people
Life would not pass me by
I'd have a chance to pick and choose
I'd have a chance to win or lose
And maybe one of us would have a chance to live
Before we die!
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What Has Love Got to Do With Getting Married?
What has love got to do with getting married?
Why should love enter into it at all?
Love can make you quite emotionally harried when you're married
It's pedantic and romantic falderal
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
Princess Susan, Princess Karen, Princess Kate
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
Love will have to wait
What has love got to do with being married?
Being married is a problem all it's own
Love is highly overrated and makes marriage complicated
When the bed is elevated to the throne
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
Pick the proper princess, prime to propagate
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
Love will have to wait
There is many an eligible maiden
Of good family with title of her own
Who would come to us bountif'ly beladen
With an army that could fortify our throne
What has marriage got to do with being happy?
Being married can't compare with being royal
Being royal you engender every luxury and splendor
While a marriage can get overripe and spoil
Find a mate, dear cousin, set the date
Why procrastinate and stay the hand of fate?
Find a mate, dear cousin, set the date
Happiness can always wait
What has love got to do with getting married?
What has bread got to do with wedding cake?
We are bored with your defiance of connubial alliance
For our line of royal giants is at stake
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
We are growing old and time is growing late
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
It's your duty to the state
Not to stay a celibate
Find a mate, find a mate
Find a mate, find a mate
What has love got to do with getting married?
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Once I was Loved
Once I was loved
I knew I was loved
I flew through my days in fanciful ways
Secure and sure there'd always be
Endless love for me
Gone is that love
My fanciful dove
Has tears in her eyes
She no longer flies
And yet, my heart will not despair
For it's there
Just a memory away
Once I was loved
So always come what may
Love's happy memories
Ever will be loving me
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What a Comforting Thing to Know
Good kings, bad kings
Sane kings or mad kings
Benevolent or nefarious
Here is where they bury us
Oh ho ho
What a comforting thing to know
There's a pre-arranged spot in the family plot where my royal bones will go
Yes, I'll be slipped into the beautiful family crypt
Oh ho ho
What a comforting thing to know
That drunkard young King Ferdinand
He reigned for half an hour
He got so soused when they crowned him
He fell from the castle tower
And here lies old King Frederick
He stole for forty years
The day he died the people cried
They cried, they cried three cheers!
Oh ho he
What a comforting thing to see
The traditional stone that is all my own
Where my dying date will be
In peace you'll rest
Beneath the beautiful family crest
Oh ho he
What a comforting thing to see!
And here lies brave King Rofar
All the battles that he won
He lies in state, serene and great
Still getting nothing done
What about King Lloyd?
King Lloyd, King Lloyd...
King Lloyd was lewd and lecherous
Evil, cruel, and treacherous
King Lloyd--
Was mad and dreaded!
Til the day he was beheaded!
Oh ho ho
What a comforting thing to know
Oh ho ho
What a comforting thing to know
But remember good King Phineous
Saintly, kind, and wise
He did nothing ignominious
Yet beside these noble brutes and knaves and drunks and skunks he lies!
Oh ho ho!
What a comforting thing to know
There's a prearranged spot in the family plot where my (your) royal bones will go
Yes, I'll be slipped into the beautiful family crypt
Oh ho he
What a comforting thing for me (you) to see
Oh ho ho
What a comforting thing to
Oh ho ho
What a comforting thing to
Oh ho ho
What a comforting thing to know!
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Protocoligorically Correct
Yes, we must be protocoligorically correct
Good form must never suffer from neglect
The rules and regulations we respect
Must be treated circumspect
Else the kingdom will be wrecked
We've a system to protect
Checked and double checked and protocoligorically correct
When it's army is battered and broken
And back to it's borders it crawls
To what clings a tottering kingdom
If not to it's protocols
And when the treasure is tapped of it's treasures
Are the tapestries stripped from the walls?
No, the court carries on with it's pleasures
Inquisitions and banquets and balls
But they must be protocoligorically correct
Good form must never suffer from neglect
The rules and regulations we respect
Must be treated circumspect
Else the kingdom will be wrecked
We've a system to protect
Checked and double checked and protocoligorically correct
If the daughter of the Duchess of Snodden
Were to be seated by the Countess of Sneed
For this breach of decorum to Snodden
The invasion of Sneed would proceed
And seek the heiress to the barony of Neuburg
By the side of her hated cousin, Gwenn
Oh, how quickly the armies of Neuburg
Would deploy to destroy us again
So we must be protocoligorically correct
Good form must never suffer from neglect
The rules and regulations we respect
Must be treated circumspect
Else the kingdom will be wrecked
We've a system to protect
Checked and double checked and protocoligorically correct
So we must be protocoligorically correct
Good form must never suffer from neglect
The rules and regulations we respect
Must be treated circumspect
Else the kingdom will be wrecked
We've a system to protect
Checked and double checked and protocoligorically correct
Protocol! Protocol! Protocol!
Above all! Above all! Above all!
Makes a kingdom rise or fall
So we must be protocoligorically correct
Good form must never suffer from neglect
The rules and regulations we respect
Must be treated circumspect
Else the kingdom will be wrecked
We've a system to protect
Checked and double checked and protocoligorically correct!
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Bride Finding Ball
A bride finding ball, a bride finding ball
Where every maiden's bound to laugh at me
The royal fatted calf
A bride finding ball, a bride finding ball
Though I'm the one who does the choosing
I'm the one who does the losing
It's nauseating, nauseating
Can't you just imagine it?
Hope springs in all
Short, fat, or tall
As they primp and preen and pray
That this will be their lucky day
There is no affair of which I'm aware
More galling to bear than a bride finding ball!
A bride finding ball, a bride finding ball
Where luscious lovlies from each land
Will vie to win the royal hand
A bride finding ball, a bride finding ball
With frills on dresses, party dresses
Every maiden effervescent
Giving her best, giving her all
Dancing, glancing, laughing, teasing
Whirling, swirling, touching, squeezing
There's no affair
To ever compare
Or thrill or enthrall like a bride finding ball!
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Suddenly it Happens
Suddenly, suddenly it happens and the dream comes true
Wonderfly, beautifully it happens and your world is new
Magically, you're holding the golden prize
Mystically, your castles begin to rise
Suddenly, dizziliy you're spinning with the thrill of life
Suddenly, thirstily you're drinking in your fill of life
But secretly you just can't believe it's true
When wonderfully, beautifully!
Suddenly it happens to you
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Secret Kingdom
There's a secret kingdom all my own
With no castles and no vassels and no throne
Just two subjects, you and me
In my private monarchy
Where the king is love and love alone
In that secret kingdom that you see
Should the make believe become reality?
With no scepter in your hand
No dominion to command
Could you be content with only me?
What is a song that's never sung?
What is a heart that's never thrilled to being young?
What is a dream that can't come true?
What is my life to me without my love for you?
If that secret kingdom's ours to share
I could never wish for more for you'd be there
Just two subjects, you and me
In our private monarchy
All alone together
We would love forever
In our secret kingdom far away somewhere
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He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me
Rainbows raced around the room when he danced with me
Shooting stars began to zoom when he danced with me
In his arms I was ascending
My world became a magic blending of dreams and hopes and love
When he danced with me
Though this lovely night was only a fantasy
And I know tonight is all there will ever be
Dancing in his arms forever
My heart will never be free!
Dreaming of the night he danced with me
Rainbows raced around the room when she danced with me
Shooting stars began to zoom when she danced with me
In her arms I was ascending
At last I saw that perfect blending of dreams and hopes and love
When she danced with me
Could it be that she was only a fantasy?
Could it be tonight is all there will ever be?
Dancing in her arms forever
My heart will never be free!
Dreaming of the night she danced with me
Dreaming of the night she danced with me
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Position and Positioning
If my father were a chancellor
How easy it would be
The lovely Lady Caroline
Would be a proper wife, you see
But my father was a servant
And my mother same as he
So the lady of my choosing
Is a world away from me
That's how it is and how it was
And how it always shall be
Position and positioning
Are socially conditioning
How you're born, how you're bred
Predetermine who you wed
Which means there's nothing changeable
Nothing's rearrangable
Position and positioning are everything in life
Farmer's daughters marry cowherds
That's acceptable and right
But absurd and quite unheard of
Is a milkmaid and a knight
I quite agree
He quite agrees
She quite agrees
That's how it always shall be
Position and positioning
Are socially conditioning
People high, people low
Keep the state of status quo
Which means there's nothing changeable
Nothing's rearrangable
Position and positioning are everything in life
When a lad first joins the army
This is what he learns for starters:
Never court your colonel's daughter
Or he'll have your guts for garters!
That's how it is and how it was
And how it always shall be
For position and positioning
Are socially conditioning
How you dress and hold your head
Predetermine who you wed
Which means there's nothing changeable
Nothing's rearrangable
Position and positioning are everything in life
All the servants in a castle
They reflect the world outside
They have rank and they have station
And adhere to them with pride
All the staff that work below stairs
May have dreams to work above
But they're locked in their positions by Tradition's iron glove
That's how it is?
And how it was
And how it always shall be
We know our place and happily we bow and scrape and bend our knee
But woe betide the woe begone
Who try to join our echelon
For privelege is not, you see
Confined to just the royalty
Behind these doors, I might suggest, I'm similarly blessed
Yes, position and positioning
Are socially conditioning
Though you work your life away
Where you start is where you stay
Which means there's nothing changeable
Nothing's rearrangable
Position and positioning are stuck with you for life!
Position and positioning
Are socially conditioning
Though you work your life away
Where you work is where you stay
Which means there's nothing changeable
Nothing's rearrangable
Position and positioning are everything in life!
Everything in life! Everything in life!
Life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life!
That's how it is?
And how it was?
And how it always shall be!
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Tell Him Anything (But Not That I Love Him)
Tell him that it wasn't love
Say I tried, say I lied
Tell him I'm unworthy of what he feels inside
Tell him that you heard me say
What seemed right just last night
Simply seemed to fade away in the light of day
Tell him of the countless other lovers whom I tantalized, victimized
Tell him of the many other times I've played this heartless game, just the same
Tell him what I really am is just a cold and empty sham
Tell him anything, but not that I love him
Tell him that it wasn't love
All we shared, all we cared
Make him hate my memory
Make him glad he's free
Paint me evil, paint me cruel
Say I broke every rule
Make him feel that he's a fool
For his loving me
Don't let him know
Why I must leave him
Why I must go so far away
For if he knew how much I love him
No power on earth could make him stay
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I Can't Forget the Melody
I can't forget the melody
Although our song is through
The love we shared
The dream we dared
Was just a prayer that can't come true
I try to stop remembering
But til the day I die
Within my memory
Will live the melody
Of the song that was you and me
Although our song is through
I can't stop loving you
For I can't forget the melody
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Secret Kingdom (Reprise)
There's a secret kingdom lovers find
Not a royal state, a royal state of mind
It comes shining into view
When the one you love loves you
All alone together
You will reign forever
In that secret kingdom where love's dreams come true
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