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The Red Shoes

from The Red Shoes by Odile

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lyrics

Shoemakers wife sympathized with
oh, this little, dainty girl.
Sat down and made, best she could,
those little shoes of old red cloth
Clumsy but meant well.
For that little girl.

She got none else so she wore
them at her mothers funeral.
Admonitions by father who burst:
„Oh what shabby dancing shoes!
They're red and they look worn!
And you're supposed to mourn!“

Thou shall dance now
'til you're pale and cold.
May the children
hear you, fear you!

Though she well knew that red shoes
were improper for communion,
she put them on and she spent
no thought on prayers nor sermon.
And every one cast views
on her pretty shoes.

When she walked in, it seemed as though
all figures and monuments
Turned all their heads, fixed their eyes
on, oh, her pretty dancing shoes.
Condemning what they saw.
She will walk no more.

Thou shall dance now
'til you're pale and cold.
May the children
hear you, fear you!

And soon she starts to dance around.
The shoes do not obey.
They seem to lift her off the ground
and carry her away.

And on she danced for dance she must.
With shoes which she could not loose.
Through rain and sunshine, mud and dust.
God have mercy!

Into the churchyard she was drawn.
Where everyone's at rest.
The dead there did not dance with her.
But she did until dawn.

And on she danced for dance she must.
With shoes which she could not loose.
Through rain and sunshine, mud and dust.
Oh what pretty dancing shoes!

Thou shall dance now
'til you're pale and cold.
May the children
hear you, fear you!

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from The Red Shoes, released August 1, 2019

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Odile Heidelberg, Germany

Odile is an alias for composer Hein-Erik Schnell based in Mannheim, Germany.

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