Maud's dream (Oliver Barton)
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- Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2004-02-10). Score information: A4, 11 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: chorus part and piano score available separately
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Title: Maud's Dream
Composer: Oliver Barton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Carols
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 2001
Description: Auntie Maud comes to stay at Christmas to the dismay of the family. This piece tells us of her dream when she was a little girl. The grown-ups all laughed at her and that is why she is the curmudgeonly bitter woman she is today.
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Original text and translations
English text
- Christmas day is sad for me,
- it really isn't fair:
- Every year is misery and no one seems to care.
- There is this secret dream I've got
- that would make Christmas fun,
- Perhaps the trouble is I've not told any one,
- Perhaps it would come true,
- Perhaps if I told you.
- I don't want pajamas or slippers,
- or a scarf in a gift-wrapped box.
- I don't want dollies or sweeties or lollies,
- I don't want bath-salts or socks,
- I just want my dream, oh why can't they see
- That I want to be the fairy
- sitting on top of the Christmas tree.
- I want to be a fairy.
- Every thing else is secondary.
- I just want to be the fairy
- sitting on top of the Christmas tree.
- If I sat on the Christmas tree, ev'ryone would stare:
- They'd say, "Whose that? How did you get up there?"
- I'd say, "I Flew", and it could be true,
- Because I would have wings - I bet you wish you did too,
- and magic wands, magic wands and things,
- But you can't, I fear, I fear, because it's my idea.
- I'll play with the tinsel and baubles,
- I don't think I'm afraid of heights:
- If they're cold my hands'll get heat from the candles,
- I'll shine in the lights. I just want my dream!
- Oh I want to be me. Oh, I want to be me!
- And I want to be the fairy sitting on top of the Christmas tree.
- I want to be the fairy,
- Blissfully solitary,
- I just want to be
- The fairy sitting on top of the Christmas tree.
- They say it's not a fairy on top of the tree-top as a rule:
- They say I should be wary of sounding like a fool:
- They say I'm confused and it's an angel sitting there,
- Proclaiming the good news with a halo in his hair.
- But this is my song, And I say that they are wrong.
- I'll watch them all play Happy Families
- while fighting like dogs and cats.
- And then the poor slackers
- will pull at their crackers,
- read mottoes and wear silly hats.
- I'll watch them eat too much turkey, and feel sick, and wonder why.
- I'll watch them get frisky on beer, wine and whisky
- then snore as the day passes by,
- But I'll have my dream,
- I'll be quite fancy free,
- Oh I want to be the fairy sitting on top of the Christmas tree.
- I want to be the fairy,
- Even if it's temporary.
- Oh I want to be the fairy
- sitting on top of the tree.
- If I can't be the fairy,
- Then I'm going home.
- I'll sit in the garden,
- And be a gnome.
- Lyrics: Oliver Barton , 2001.