Jazz_Chant_All_Fairy_Tales

FISHERMAN	She wants to make the sun rise.
	And the stars come out.
FLOUNDER	What are you saying?
FISHERMAN	She wants to make the sky turn red.
	And the rain fall.
	And the snow . . .
FLOUNDER	Stop it! Stop it!
	I've heard enough.
CHORUS	Stop it! Stop it!
	Enough's enough.
	Stop it!
	Stop it! Now!
NARRATOR	As the flounder spoke, there was
	lightning and thunder in the sky.
	The wind blew over the dark water,
	and for a moment, the flounder
	disappeared under a very big wave.
	But then suddenly, he returned
	and spoke to the fisherman for the
	last time.
FLOUNDER	Listen to me carefully
	The answer is no.
	The answer is no.
	The stars? The moon?
	The rain? The snow?
	The sun? The sky?
	The answer is NO!
CHORUS	The answer is no.
	The stars? The moon?
	The rain? The snow?
	The answer is NO!

NARRATOR	And then the flounder disappeared
	into the angry sea. The fisherman
	went home, and found that all of the
	things the flounder had given them
	were gone. They were back where
	they had started, in their simple
	house. As time passed, the
	fisherman almost forgot the story
	He didn't miss the big house, or the
	time when his wife was the King.
	But sometimes at night when the
	moon was full, and he thought he
	saw the shadow of a mermaid's tail,
	he missed the sound of the flounder,
	and he would call out his name not
	to ask for anything, just to see him,
	and hear that beautiful voice.
FISHERMAN	Flounder,flounder in the sea.
	Flounder, flounder come to me.
NARRATOR	But he never did, and no one ever
	saw him again.