Mama - are you awake my mama?
mama - I want to come close to you
oh mama - it would be so fun to be grown up

then I would conduct both an orchestra and choir

Mama - you are lovely, my mama

I - like coming closer to you
Oh but Mama - earlier I dreamt a dream of you
I fell out of bed - and it upset me so


You were a queen in a tall palace
a band of elves, men and trolls

played for you and sang
you were so magnificent


The trolls they pounded the drums
flower-elves played the flutes
the violins, by human beings

on mandolin, me

Mama


All of us gazed up at you
just like flowers when the sun shines

and from your embrace
gifts flew everywhere


Most easily caught theirs
gladly I quickly reached mine
but the chair on which I perched

tipped over, so it fell

Mama - you are lovely, my mama

I like coming close to you
oh mama - it would be so fun to be grown up
then I would conduct both an orchestra and choir