The Tale of Tsar Saltan
In a garden of a morning
Walked a lovely maiden…
Truly this princess is fair,
She is quite beyond compare!
O, my heart! I see my mate!
‘Tis, I swear, the hand of fate!
I can hardly breathe for joy!
He is crying like a boy.
Look! The tsar has kissed his wife!
And his son!
And his son’s wife!
Upon her head he’s placed the crown.
What shall we do? We’re done for,
now!
- Look, the feast has just begun.
- Never did I see such fun.
Did you see the cook and weaver,
Or their mother, that deceiver?
- I saw them in a corner there.
- I never saw them anywhere.
Tsar, they weep, and have admitted
All the crimes they have committed.
They are weeping, did you say?
Tsar, why spoil our joy today?
Let the witches go, I pray.
Since, my own, you want it so,
We will let the wretches go.
The End