Chris Miller, Sarah Charles Lewis, Robert Lenzi, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Carolee Carmello - The Story of the Tucks lyrics

Once upon a time once upon a time
Can I start like that?

Should't start like that

Be patient with me, Winnie
I've never told this before
Once there was a man
A Man with a wife and a family

That's Miles and me

Jesse, let me tell the story
I don't want to start a war
We tore from the west to settle in the east
Looking for a farm or some land at least

Get to the part where I fall from the tree

No, you've got it all wrong

Miles, Jesse then we found a wood

Yes, we found a wood
Can you guess which wood winnie: Mine?

You're good

Where we found ourselves a clearing
And camped for the night just the four of us

Plus the cat and the horse
They play a crucial part

Yes, Miles of course
We slept by a spring near an old ash tree

And that's where I carved a "T"

Jesse!

In the morning in the morning

We had no way of knowing
Without even thinking we drank
From the spring
Who knew that spring would change everything?

Except for the horse
Everybody drank even the cat

Remember that?

You can lead a horse to water

I think she knows the phrase

So days went by then months then years
With an ordinary life

So it appears

The old horse died at 25

But the cat was still alive

We weren't changing we weren't changing
We weren't changing miles:
We weren't growing jesse: We weren't growing

We had no way of knowing nobody was thinking
It's because of the spring
Who knew that spring would change everything

The town began to talk Jesse:
People shied away Winnie look at me
They were so outraged Winnie
Listen here though we hadn't aged
Our lives in pious
Our looks perverse I survived a great fall
He survived much worse

Shut up Jesse

Still we didn't know Yes of course we knew
Didn't know the spring How could
We not know though was the cause of it
Or where we'd sit on the delicate balance
Between a blessing and a
Curse The greatest family in the universe

Don't confuse the girl

The cat and the horse the "T" on the tree
The drink that changed us eternally
That's our secret keep it locked up tight

But, I still don't understand

Enough alright we're not aging
We're not growing and none of us know why
Once upon a time we drank from your spring
And now we'll never die

And that's the story of the Tucks the end