The Sleepy Giant letra

My age is three hundred and seventy-two,
And I think, with the deepest regret,
How I used to pick up and voraciously chew
The dear little boys whom I met.

I've eaten them raw, in their holiday suits;
I've eaten them curried with rice;
I've eaten them baked, in their jackets and boots,
And found them exceedingly nice.

But now that my jaws are too weak for such fare,
I think it exceedingly rude
To do such a thing, when I'm quite well aware
Little boys do not like being chewed.

And so I contentedly live upon eels,
And try to do nothing amiss,
And I pass all the time I can spare from my meals
In innocent slumber - like this.

Natalie Merchant - Letras

• (From) Both Sides Now
• Adventures of Isabel
• After The Gold Rush
• All I Want
• Autumn Lullaby
• Baby I Love You
• Because the Night
• Beloved Wife
• Black Sheep
• Bleezer's Ice-Cream
• Break Your Heart
• Build A Levee
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
• But Not For Me
• Calico Pie
• Carnival
• Children Go Where I Send Thee
• Come Take A Trip In My Airship
• Cowboy Romance
• Crazy man Michael
• Crying, My Little One
• Diver boy
• Down on Penny's farm
• Dust Bowl
• Effigy
• Equestrienne
• Frozen Charlotte
• Giving Up Everything
• Go Down, Moses
• Golden Boy
• Griselda
• Gulf Of Araby
• House Carpenter
• How You've Grown
• I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
• I May Know The Word
• I Saw a Ship A-sailing
• I'm Not Gonna Beg
• If No One Ever Marries Me
• In the Ghetto
• Indian Names
• It Makes A Change
• It's A-coming
• Jealousy
• Just Can't Last
• Kind & Generous
• King of May
• Ladybird
• Last goodbye
• Life Is Sweet
• Lowlands Of Holland
• Lulu
• Maggie And Milly And Molly And May
• Maggie Said
• Misguided Angel
• Motherland
• My Skin
• Noah's dove
• Not In This Life
• Nursery Rhyme Of Innocence And Experience
• Ode To Billy Joe
• One Fine Day
• Ophelia
• Ophelia
• Owensboro
• Peace train
• Poor Wayfaring Stranger
• Put The Law On You
• River
• Saint Judas
• Sally Ann
• San Andreas Fault
• Santa Baby
• Seven Deadly Sins
• Seven Years
• Soldier, Soldier
• Son Of A Preacher Man
• Space Oddity
• Spring And Fall: To a Young Child
• Sweet And a Lullaby
• Sympathy For The Devil
• Take A Look
• Tell Yourself
• Texas
• The Ballad of Henry Darger
• The Blind Men And The Elephant
• The Dancing Bear
• The End
• The Gulf of Araby
• The Janitor's Boy
• The King Of China's Daughter
• The Land Of Nod
• The Letter
• The Living
• The Lowlands Of Holland
• The Man In The Wilderness
• The Missionary's Daughter
• The Peppery Man
• The Sleepy Giant
• The Walloping Window Blind
• The Worst Thing
• Thick As Thieves
• This House Is On Fire
• To Sir With Love (feat. Michael Stipe)
• Topsyturvey-world
• Tower of Babel
• Vain And Careless
• Verdi Cries
• Weeping Pilgrim
• When They Ring The Golden Bells
• Where I Go
• Which Side Are You On?
• Wonder