When She Returns

Flag Seller: Come to the festival, lads and lasses
Lad #1: Come and be merry, my dears
Lass #1: Come as we honor the missing princess
Townspeople: Gone from us all of these years

Baker: Buy a sweet pastry in loving memory
Balloon Seller: Purchase a flower balloon
Flag Girl: Wave a bright flag for our missing princess
Townspeople: May she return to us soon

Lass #2: All of these years we’ve been fondly awaiting her
Baker: Certain that somewhere she surely must roam
Flag Seller: So, on her birthday we keep celebrating her
Townspeople: Hoping she’ll hear and come home

Lantern Seller: When she returns she’ll be lovely and fair like you
Rapunzel: Thanks!
Lad #1: If it’s this year, she’ll be eighteen years old
Rapunzel: Me too!
Flower Girl: She would be pretty with long, golden hair like you

Townspeople:
When she returns to the fold

People will be singing, the bells will be ringing
Lighting the way on the day she returns
And if she is near us, perhaps she will hear us
And come when she sees how her kingdom still yearns

King Frederic and Queen Arianna: When she returns, we will welcome her in again

All:
When she returns, why, how happy we’ll be
When she returns and her rein can begin again
Joyously

But, til she comes
We’ll wave flags and beat drums
Then we'll pray for that day
For the day when she returns

Townspeople:
Banners will be flying, the people are crying
Shouting out ‘Hooray!’ on the day she returns
We will come to greet her, so eager to meet her
And show her how brightly her memory still burns

Lass #2: And her poor parents, how long they have wept for her
Lass #1: Marking each birthday with joy and with tears

Lasses:
Hoping she’ll come for the crown they have kept for her
All these years

Lads:
And this is why, as her birthday drawn nigh
We’ll sing songs and light lanterns and hope she’ll come by

Townspeople:
And she’ll join in a dance and then maybe perchance
She will see how loved she’ll be
When she returns