[00:00.274]Down in the green hay
[00:04.036]Where monkey and bear usually lay
[00:08.790]They woke from a stable-boy's cry
[00:15.086]Said:"someone come quick
[00:18.508]The horses got loose, got grass-sick
[00:22.609]They'll founder Fain, they'll die."
[00:27.886]What is now known by the sorrel and the roan?
[00:31.412]By the chestnut, and the bay, and the gelding grey?
[00:36.010]It is: stay by the gate that you are given
[00:39.954]And remain in your place, for your season
[00:44.003]And had the overfed dead but listened
[00:48.496]To that high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom
[00:52.624]"Did you hear that, Bear?" said monkey
[00:56.620]"We'll get out of here, fair and square
[00:59.206]They've left the gate open wide!"
[01:03.282]So, my bride
[01:07.748]Here is my hand. Where is your paw?
[01:11.902]Try and understand my plan, Ursula
[01:16.630]My heart is a furnace
[01:19.974]Full of love that is just, and earnest
[01:24.206]Now you know that we must unlearn this
[01:28.098]Allegiance to a life of service
[01:31.860]And no longer answer to that heartless
[01:35.543]Hay-monger, nor be his accomplice
[01:40.088](that charlatan, with artless hustling!)
[01:44.033]But Ursula, we've got to eat something
[01:47.820]And earn our keep, while still within
[01:51.660]The borders of the land that man has girded
[01:55.683](all double-bolted and tightfisted!)
[01:59.915]Until we reach the open country
[02:04.042]A steeped in milk and honey
[02:07.778]Will you keep your fancy clothes on, for me?
[02:11.670]Can you bear a little longer to wear that leash?
[02:15.745]My love, I swear by the air I breathe
[02:20.500]Sooner or later, you'll bare your teeth
[02:25.620]But for now, just dance, darling
[02:29.721]C'mon, will you dance, my darling?
[02:34.031]Darling, there's a place for us
[02:38.315]Can we go, before I turn to dust?
[02:42.677]Oh my darling there's a place for us
[02:52.291]Oh darling. C'mon will you dance?
[02:56.653]My darling, oh the hills are groaning with excess
[03:02.478]Like a table ceaselessly being set
[03:07.337]Oh my darling, we will get there yet
[03:13.894]
[03:20.842]They trooped past the guards
[03:23.611]Past the coops, and the fields, and the farmyards, all night, till finally
[03:31.762]The space they gained
[03:33.825]Grew much farther than the stone that Bear threw
[03:38.632]To mark where they'd stop for tea
[03:43.569]But walk a little faster
[03:45.633]Don't look backwards
[03:47.722]Your feast is to the East, which lies a little past the pasture
[03:51.876]And the blackbirds hear tea whistling they rise and clap
[03:55.664]Their applause caws the kettle black
[03:59.765]And we can't have none of that!
[04:03.657]Move along, Bear, there, there, that's that
[04:07.941]Though cast in plaster
[04:10.658]Our Ursala's heart beat faster
[04:14.655]Than monkey's ever will
[04:20.872]But still
[04:23.092]They have got to pay the bills
[04:28.996]Hadn't they?
[04:31.504]That is what the monkey would say
[04:35.971]So, with the courage of a clown, or a cur
[04:41.587]Or a kite, jerking tight at its tether
[04:44.774]In her dun-brown gown of fur
[04:48.196]And her jerkin off swansdown and leather
[04:52.976]Bear would sway on her hind legs
[04:55.353]The organ would grind dregs of song
[04:58.357]For the pleasure of the children who'd shriek
[05:03.007]Throwing coins at her feet
[05:05.228]Then recoiling in terror
[05:08.362]Sing, dance, darling
[05:11.210]C'mon, will you dance, my darling?
[05:14.344]Oh darling, there's a place for us
[05:18.576]Can we go, before I turn to dust?
[05:22.599]My darling there's a place for us
[05:31.455]Oh darling.
[05:34.093]C'mon, will you dance my darling?
[05:37.463]You keep your eyes fixed on the highest hill
[05:41.773]Where you'll ever-after eat your fill
[05:46.188]Oh my darling…dear…mine…if you dance
[05:54.913]Dance! darling and I will love you still
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[06:06.459]Deep in the night
[06:08.183]Shone a weak and miserly light
[06:11.056]Where the monkey shouldered his lamp
[06:14.139]Someone had told him that bear'd been wandering a fair piece away
[06:19.102]From where they were camped
[06:21.557]Someone had told him that bear'd been sneaking away
[06:25.476]To the seaside caverns to bathe
[06:28.506]And the thought troubled the monkey
[06:31.275]For he was afraid of spelunking
[06:34.279]Down in those caves
[06:35.977]Also afraid what the village people would say
[06:40.000]If they saw the bear in that state
[06:43.056]Lolling and splashing obscenely
[06:45.668]Well, it seemed irrationally washing that face
[06:50.135]Washing that matted and flea-bit pelt in some sea's beach and old kelp dripping with brine
[06:57.058]The monkey just laughed and he muttered
[06:59.984]When she comes back, Ursula will be bursting with pride
[07:04.294]Till I jump up saying, "You've been rolling in muck!"
[07:08.264]Saying, "You smell of garbage and grime!"
[07:12.261]But far out
[07:14.508]Far out
[07:16.310]By now
[07:18.034]By now
[07:19.758]Far out, by now, Bear ploughed
[07:23.494]'Cause she would
[07:24.722]Not drown
[07:26.864]First the outside-legs of the bear
[07:29.868]Up and fell down, in the water, like knobby garters
[07:34.178]Then the outside-arms of the bear
[07:36.947]Fell off as easy as if sloughed from boiled tomatoes
[07:41.309]Low red in a genteel curtsy
[07:43.895]Bear shed the mantle of her
[07:46.090]Diluvian shoulders
[07:48.284]And with this sigh
[07:49.695]She allowed the burden of belly to drop
[07:53.064]Like an apron full of boulders
[07:55.677]If you could hold up her threadbare coat to the light
[07:59.255]Where it's worn translucent in places
[08:02.442]You'd see spots where almost every night of the year
[08:06.178]Bear had been mending
[08:07.353]Suspending that baseness
[08:09.208]Now her coat drags through the water bagging with a life's-worth of hunger
[08:14.615]Limitless minnows
[08:16.392]In the magnetic embrace
[08:18.743]Balletic and glacial of bear's insatiable shadow
[08:24.307]Left there!
[08:26.423]Left there!
[08:28.068]When bear
[08:29.636]Left bear
[08:31.386]Left there
[08:32.744]Left there
[08:33.998]When bear
[08:35.174]Stepped clear of bear
[08:38.779]
[08:58.371](Sooner or later you'll bury your teeth)
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