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Big Bird
Big Bird

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Verse 1
G

D

Fummalina, fummalina,
G
D

fly me little flea!

Fummalina, dance,
G

fummalina, sing!

Fummalina, what's the difference
D

of being very small?
Cm
G
D

When your heart is full of good will,
G

I'll be gone!
D
G

No, you're no bigger than my thumb,
D

than my thumb, than my thumb,

than my thumb,
G

than my thumb, sweet
D
Em

Thumbelina, don't be glum,

don't be glum,
G

na -na -na, ah -ah -ah,
D
G

thump -thump -thump.

Thumbelina, Thumbelina,
D

tiny little thing,

Thumbelina dance,
G

Thumbelina sing,

Thumbelina, what's the difference

if you're very small,
Cm
G
D

When your heart's full of love
G

and life in full?
D
G

Oh, you're no bigger than my toe,
D

than my toe, than my toe,
G

than my toe, than my toe,
D
Em

Swing down, believe it, keep that glow

Keep that glow
G
D

And you'll grow, and you'll grow,

and you'll grow
G

Thumbelina, Thumbelina,
D

tiny little thing

Thumbelina, dance,
G

Thumbelina, sing

Thumbelina, what's the difference
Em
G

if you're very small
D
Cm
D
G
D

When you are full of thunder an d lightning,
G
Eb
Ab

so
Eb
Ab

Fm



Once there was a woman

who wanted a child

more than anything else on earth.

One day she went to see an old

witch.

The witch gave her a magic seed

and said, Go home and plant this.

See what happens. The

seed grew right away,

up came the most beautiful tulip.

How lovely it is, said the woman,

and she kissed the flower.

The flower opened with a pop.

Standing inside was a tiny little girl.

She was only an inch high,

smaller than your thumb.

I'll call her Thumbelina,

thought the woman.

Thumbelina slept in a walnut shell,

with a rose petal for a

blanket.

She was very happy in her new

home.

In the daytime,

she played on a table

or in her lake,

which was a bowl full of water

with flowers in it. She had

a little leaf for a boat.

One night, a nasty old toad

sneaked into the house

and saw Thumbelina sleeping.

She'd make a good wife for my

son, she thought,

and she stole the tiny girl away.

The mother toad put her on a lily pad

in the middle of the stream,

and Thumbelina couldn't escape.

Of course,

Thumbelina didn't want to marry any toad

and live in the mud with

him.

But she was trapped until

a beautiful white butterfly

helped her get away.

After that,

Thumbelina had lots of adventures.

First, a big ugly bug

wanted to marry her.

Then he let her go,

and she wandered around the forest

for a long time.

Now this story is finally getting good.

Hush, Oscar, and let me finish the story.

Now, just as the freezing winter

was beginning,

a little field mouse took her into

her house under the ground.

It was a little strange to live with a mouse,


but Thumbelina was glad to be warm

and cozy.

Next door to the mouse

lived a fuzzy, boring, bad -tempered,

unpleasant old mole.

He didn't like the sun

because he lived under the ground.


He didn't like birds or flowers or

butterflies

and wasn't interested in seeing

them.

But he did like Thumbelina.

He liked her singing

and so she had to

sing him song after song.

Now one day the tiny girl found

a swallow lying on the ground.

The beautiful bird wasn't moving

and Thumbelina thought

he was dead.

Thumbelina was so sad she covered him up with

a little blanket

she wove out of grass and flowers.

But when she bent down to give him a farewell kiss,


she felt his heart beating.

He was just freezing cold,

and the blanket had brought

him back to life again.

Thumbelina nursed him back

to health.

When he was better,

he asked her to fly away with him,


but she refused. The mole and the

mouse

have been so kind to me.

I can't leave them, she said.

It would make them very sad.


And so the bird sadly flew away.

One day, the mouse announced to Thumbelina that

she was to be the mole's wife.

Aren't you lucky, said the mouse,

he has so many fine things,

and you'll be wealthy.

They were to be married in the fall.

You lucky girl, said the mole to her,


you'll live down here with me,

and you'll never need

that silly sunshine again.

Well, the wedding got nearer and nearer,

and Thumbelina got sadder

and sadder.

She didn't want to marry any of these toads

and bugs and moles,

but they all wanted to marry her.

What was to become of her?

She was just about to give up

and marry the mole

when her lovely swallow appeared again.

Why don't you come with me?"

he asked her once more.

This time she agreed.

The swallow carried her away

to a wonderful, warm country

full of sunlight and flowers.

And wait until you hear this part.

She found there a tiny little prince,

just the same size as she was.

Of course, they fell in love right away,

and of course, she married him.

Thumbelina became queen

of the flowers.

There, Oscar.

Wasn't that a nice story?

Of course not.

It was yucky,

except for the toads and

the bugs and the mole.

I especially liked that mole.

In fact, I think she should have married

him.

I don't think that would have been

such a good idea.

She didn't love him at all.

So what? That's not the way

it's supposed to be.
Cm
Fm
Bb

Especially not in a fairy tale.
Eb
Ab

Listen, this is the way it's
Cm
Bb

supposed to be.

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Chords
  • G

  • D

  • Cm

    3
  • Em

  • Eb

    6
  • Ab

    4
  • Fm

  • Bb

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