All In One Basket

[bnewman]

The story continues...  Years have passed.  The Fool and the Dragon have become fast friends.  But the world is changing.  Mortally wounded and no longer able to protect her last clutch of eggs, the Dragon makes a perilous choice.

lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

listen to this song

/ C G / F G / Am C / F E /

 

My friend, I have one last favor to ask

With the last of my breath and voice

I'd rather not put all my eggs in one basket

But it seems that I have no choice

 

/ " / FG Am / FG Am / F G /

 

Gone are the days when a hunter would fear

The rumor of mighty wings

They have to be hidden, I can't keep them here

But who knows what the future will bring?

 

/ " / AmE - / F C / E - /

 

So I'm putting all of my eggs in one basket

The basket is you

Now, don't you go putting all of my eggs

In one basket, too

 

Follow your maps to their uttermost reaches

Scatter them wide and far

Jungles and clifftops and black sand beaches

Tell no one where they are

 

Nestle them where they'll be safe and warm

It only takes heat to hatch them

And they'll grow strong wings that can weather this storm

For as long as the hunters can't catch them

 

I'm putting all of my eggs in one basket

Don't prove me unwise

Did you think you would ever see motherly tears

In a dragon's eyes?

 

Well, I never expected to see what I've seen

Such fearless love and trust

In the clear-seeing eyes of a human being

Who knows he will soon be dust

 

So I place all my hopes in your hands, my friend

Though I know that it may be rash

For sooner than you I shall come to my end

In ember and smoke and ash

 

But I'm putting all of my eggs in one basket

I pray they survive

I pray that your decency, pray that their secrecy

Keeps them alive

 

/ F Am / FG C /

 

And the eggs of their eggs may yet hatch in a time

When dragons thrive