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Thumbelina Lyrics
Hush little baby, don't you cry
When we get to Tucson you'll see why
We left the snowstorms and the thunder and rain
For the desert sun, we're gonna be born again
What's important in this world
A little boy, a little girl
Hush little darling, go to sleep
Look out the window and count the sheep
That dot the hillsides and the fields of wheat
Across America as we cross America
What's important here today
The broken line on the highway
All the love in the world for you, girl
Thumbelina in a great big scary world
All the love in the world for you, girl
Take my hand and we'll make it through this world
Hush little baby, my poor little thing
You've been shuffled about like a pawned wedding ring
It must seem strange, love was here then gone
And the Oklahoma sunrise becomes the Amarillo dawn
What's important in this life
Ask the man who's lost his wife
When we get to Tucson you'll see why
We left the snowstorms and the thunder and rain
For the desert sun, we're gonna be born again
What's important in this world
A little boy, a little girl
Look out the window and count the sheep
That dot the hillsides and the fields of wheat
Across America as we cross America
What's important here today
The broken line on the highway
Thumbelina in a great big scary world
All the love in the world for you, girl
Take my hand and we'll make it through this world
You've been shuffled about like a pawned wedding ring
It must seem strange, love was here then gone
And the Oklahoma sunrise becomes the Amarillo dawn
What's important in this life
Ask the man who's lost his wife
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Recently moved NY area to Tucson. Discovered this song. Fits. Nice.
This song surely references both the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the follow-up TV series Alice (1976-1985); both feature a mother of a young son whose husband dies in a traffic accident. She then moves from New Mexico to Tucson (New Jersey to Phoenix in the series) to take a waitressing job and establish a new life.
"Thumbelina" is a story by Hans Christian Anderson about a woman the size of an adult person's thumb (based on the older English story of "Tom Thumb.") The titular character is threatened less by larger creatures than by prospective partnerships/marriages to a toad, stag beetle, and mole, all of whom are unappealing mates from whom she must escape.