Eric Stern, David Aaron Baker & Sarah Jessica Parker -
Once Upon a Mattress (New Broadway Cast Recording (1996))
The Swamps of Home
I come from the land of the foggy, foggy dew ooh-ooh-ooh!
Ooh-ooh-ooh! Ooh-ooh-ooh!
Where walking through the meadow in the morning is like walking through glue!
The swamps of home are brushed with green and gold at break of day.
At break of day.
The swaps of home are lovely to behold from far away.
From far away.
In my soul is the beauty of the bog, in my memory the magic of the mud.
I know that blood is thicker than water but the swamps of home are thicker than blood.
Blo-o-od!
Where e'er I roam my heart grows dank and cold,
my face grows gray when shadows fall and I hear the call...
of the swamps of home.
Ah...
I hear them calling me now, calling me back, calling me Winnifred,
Winnifred, Winnifred, Winnifred, who do you think you are?
Girl of the swamp,
Winnifred, Winnifred
You've gone to far!
Maid of the marshland, give up the struggle!
Listen to the voice of the swamp;
gluggle-uggle-uggle.
gluggle-uggle-uggle.
Where e'er I roam. The whips of fate may smart, but deep down in my heart
ooh...
One thought will abide and will ne'er be forgotten,
though I search far and wide there is no land as rotten...
Rotten, rotten, rotten, Rotten, rotten, rotten, Rotten, rotten, rotten...
As the swamps of home.
The swamps of home!
Ooh-ooh-ooh! Ooh-ooh-ooh!
Where walking through the meadow in the morning is like walking through glue!
The swamps of home are brushed with green and gold at break of day.
At break of day.
The swaps of home are lovely to behold from far away.
From far away.
In my soul is the beauty of the bog, in my memory the magic of the mud.
I know that blood is thicker than water but the swamps of home are thicker than blood.
Blo-o-od!
Where e'er I roam my heart grows dank and cold,
my face grows gray when shadows fall and I hear the call...
of the swamps of home.
Ah...
I hear them calling me now, calling me back, calling me Winnifred,
Winnifred, Winnifred, Winnifred, who do you think you are?
Girl of the swamp,
Winnifred, Winnifred
You've gone to far!
Maid of the marshland, give up the struggle!
Listen to the voice of the swamp;
gluggle-uggle-uggle.
gluggle-uggle-uggle.
Where e'er I roam. The whips of fate may smart, but deep down in my heart
ooh...
One thought will abide and will ne'er be forgotten,
though I search far and wide there is no land as rotten...
Rotten, rotten, rotten, Rotten, rotten, rotten, Rotten, rotten, rotten...
As the swamps of home.
The swamps of home!
Credits
Writer(s): Marshall Barer, Mary Guettel Rodgers
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.