Karaoké Meadowlark The Baker's Wife (musical) (Patti LuPone)

What does he think I am

What sort of a weak-willed sentimental sheep does he think I am

Well, I won't even think about him

I'll just go to sleep

Who does he think he is

Who could be as handsome

Who could be as smart as he thinks he is

He just has to snap his fingers women fall apart

What does he think that I'll slink away with him

That I'll follow him ripe and drooling

Who does he think he is and what does he think I am and who do I think

I'm fooling

When I was a girl l had a favorite story of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind

Her voice could match the angels' in its glory but she was blind

The lark was blind

The king of the river took her to his palace

Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid

And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed

Sing for me my meadowlark

Sing for me of the silver morning

Set me free my meadowlark

And I'll buy you a priceless jewel

And cloth of brocade and crewel

And I'll love you for life if you will sing for me

Then one day as the lark sang by the water

The god of the sun heard her in his flight

And her singing moved him so he came and brought her the gift of sight

He gave her sight

And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendor

Of this beautiful young god so proud and strong

And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender

Come along

Fly with me my meadowlark

Fly with me on the silver morning

Past the sea where the dolphins bark

We will dance on the coral beaches

Make a feast of the plums and peaches

Just as far as your vision reaches

Fly with me

But the meadowlark said no for the old king loved her so

She couldn't bear to wound his pride

So the sun god flew away and when the king came down that day

He found his meadowlark had died

Every time I heard that part

I cried

And now I stand here starry-eyed and stormy

Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb

A beautiful, young man appears before me

Singing come oh, won't you come

And what can I do if finally for the first time

The one I'm burning for returns the glow

If love has come at last it's picked the worst time

Still I know

I've got to go

Fly away meadowlark

Fly away in the silver morning

If I stay

I'll grow to curse the dark

So it's off where the days don't find me

I know I leave wounds behind me

But i won't let tomorrow find me back this way

Before my past once again can blind me

Fly away

And we won't wait to say good-bye

My beautiful young man and I