Wicked Girls Wendy played fair, and she played by the rules that they gave her; They say she grew up and grew old -- Peter Pan couldn't save her. They say she went home, and she never looked back, Got her feet on the ground, got her life on its track. She's the patron saint priestess of all the lost girls who got found. And she once had her head in the clouds, but she died on the ground. Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in, A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin'. She made her escape, went from gray into green, And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean, But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky Where color's a fable and freedom's a fairy tale lie. Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like -- we're determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can't blame her; They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her. They say she went mad, and she never complained, For there's peace of a kind in a life unconstrained. She gives Cheshire kisses, she's easy with white rabbit smiles, And she'll never be free, but she's won herself safe for a while. Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly. They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly. They never once asked to return to their lives To be children and chattel and mothers and wives, But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned; And one queen said 'I am not a toy', and she never returned. Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like -- we're determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. Mandy's a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries, And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries. Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks, While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks, And the rules that we live by are simple and clear: Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear -- Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like -- we're determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost -- We won't take our place on the shelves. It's better to fly and it's better to die Say the wicked girls saving ourselves. Written on: 2008-05-09. Seanan McGuire
@scarletandjade The two girls from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe are Susan and Lucy, who are both named in the chorus. Jane is Jane Banks from Mary Poppins.
It say's on Seanan's website that the Jane refered to is the Jane from Mary Poppins. Q: In "Wicked Girls," who is the Jane referred to in the chorus? A: The Jane referenced in the chorus of "Wicked Girls" is Jane Banks, from the Mary Poppins books. She was originally intended to have a verse of her own, but it didn't happen.
Ah, Seanan. I still double-take when I see blurry images of you like this - I will have to send you a photograph of Katja one day to show you exactly why, if she says I can! (Yes, I know Seanan didn't post this. But I bet she checks comments when she has time - if she ever has time, given how much STUFF she does!)
Not out of print, just out of stock. She said on tumblr that she anticipates doing a run around the holidays, she's just been traveling a lot this fall.
Because it was recorded in a hotel conference room, probably with a cell phone camera. The acoustics of convention spaces would make Pavarotti and Yo-Yo Ma sound like crap.
The first one that comes to mind is Jane of "Tarzan and Jane," but I can ask Seanan the next time I talk to her (which will probably be OVFF at the end of October).
ROFLMBO... I'm seeing the guy playing the guitar, then see the skirt swaying as he moves. ???? Not judging, just never saw him wear skirts or robes before. And it really doesn't go with his shirt. ??? LOL THEN I see the violin bow rising from his arm. I seriously need a new pair of glasses.
Susan chose her own path, rather than the one laid out for her like the track under a roller coaster car. Or anyway, that's what it felt like to her. But as more than one reader has called it, that is *The Problem of Susan.*
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Wicked Girls
Wendy played fair, and she played by the rules that they gave her; They say she grew up and grew old -- Peter Pan couldn't save her. They say she went home, and she never looked back, Got her feet on the ground, got her life on its track. She's the patron saint priestess of all the lost girls who got found. And she once had her head in the clouds, but she died on the ground. Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in, A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin'. She made her escape, went from gray into green, And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean, But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky Where color's a fable and freedom's a fairy tale lie. Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like -- we're determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can't blame her; They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her. They say she went mad, and she never complained, For there's peace of a kind in a life unconstrained. She gives Cheshire kisses, she's easy with white rabbit smiles, And she'll never be free, but she's won herself safe for a while. Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly. They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly. They never once asked to return to their lives To be children and chattel and mothers and wives, But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned; And one queen said 'I am not a toy', and she never returned. Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like -- we're determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. Mandy's a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries, And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries. Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks, While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks, And the rules that we live by are simple and clear: Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear -- Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like -- we're determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost -- We won't take our place on the shelves. It's better to fly and it's better to die Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.
Written on: 2008-05-09. Seanan McGuire
@scarletandjade The two girls from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe are Susan and Lucy, who are both named in the chorus. Jane is Jane Banks from Mary Poppins.
This song always makes my heart bleed, and at the same time fill with hope... Very well done!
Yes - painful, but it offers hope to the courageous.
This was a fun weekend! It was my family's first DuckCon.
Sooj's boots look SO COMFORTABLE.
SOOJ? S. J. TUCKER? WHERE?!?!?!?
OH, I SEE HER NOW! I DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEY KNEW EACHOTHER!!!
I love this song. It's beautiful & It inspires me.
It say's on Seanan's website that the Jane refered to is the Jane from Mary Poppins.
Q: In "Wicked Girls," who is the Jane referred to in the chorus?
A: The Jane referenced in the chorus of "Wicked Girls" is Jane Banks, from the Mary Poppins books. She was originally intended to have a verse of her own, but it didn't happen.
Yep
It's better to fly and it's better to die than to go back on the shelf... do what thou wilt, whether it's adventurous or domestic.
there used to be a better copy on TH-cam that wasn't live and I can't find it. =(
Ah, Seanan. I still double-take when I see blurry images of you like this - I will have to send you a photograph of Katja one day to show you exactly why, if she says I can!
(Yes, I know Seanan didn't post this. But I bet she checks comments when she has time - if she ever has time, given how much STUFF she does!)
I love this song. I wish I could find a MP3 of it.
+Celtic Harmony This song appears on Seanan's 2011 album "Wicked Girls."
Which was out of print last I saw. :(
Not out of print, just out of stock. She said on tumblr that she anticipates doing a run around the holidays, she's just been traveling a lot this fall.
MaryVail Baucom *dies of happiness*
Thank you so much for letting me know!
MaryVail Baucom Er, you didn't die of happiness, I died of happiness. Silly TH-cam with its asterisk bolding.
@Shiyiya I was at her concert in Seattle last Saturday, and she said this is the title track for her next CD, being recorded now.
@Shiyiya The list of songs on the CD is on her website.
Are Susan and and Lucy from the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe?
Is there a studio recording of this somewhere for download?
+Zicoxite This song appears on Seanan's 2011 album "Wicked Girls."
@Zicoxite
" Is there a studio recording of this somewhere for download? "
look up
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i dont find yhe song, i love the licrys and i feel live....
It's Jane Banks from Mary Poppins. :)
Because it was recorded in a hotel conference room, probably with a cell phone camera. The acoustics of convention spaces would make Pavarotti and Yo-Yo Ma sound like crap.
The first one that comes to mind is Jane of "Tarzan and Jane," but I can ask Seanan the next time I talk to her (which will probably be OVFF at the end of October).
Jane Banks from *_Mary Poppins_* makes more sense to me, though.
I assumed that it was Jane from Susan Cooper's "Dark is Rising" series.
Actually I believe Susan and Jane are both from the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. :)
Why is the sound quality so bad?
I don't know when or why I liked this. I have no memory of this
Well, you clearly had good taste.
@@johnburt1172 i also don’t remember commenting that lol. Why do I have selective memory about this video?
@@ValkyrieCainEpicness Because a wicked girl asked you to look directly into her fountain pen...?
@Shiyiya And pre-orders are open! So if you have a credit card, you can buy this song now.
(And, more importantly, so can I.)
Wendy's daughter's name is Jane so there is a possibility.
Jane, Susan and Jane both of the sisters from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The two older sisters...
No, the Pevensey sisters are named Lucy (the obedient one) and Susan (the willful one who missed out on Armageddon).
Who's "Jane"? The only one I can think of offhand is the daughter in Mary Poppins, but she doesn't quite fit.
*claps*
seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=238 Lyrics!
ROFLMBO... I'm seeing the guy playing the guitar, then see the skirt swaying as he moves. ???? Not judging, just never saw him wear skirts or robes before. And it really doesn't go with his shirt. ??? LOL THEN I see the violin bow rising from his arm. I seriously need a new pair of glasses.
I've always liked Lucy more than Susan because Susan chose the mundane.
Susan got a raw deal.
Susan chose her own path, rather than the one laid out for her like the track under a roller coaster car. Or anyway, that's what it felt like to her. But as more than one reader has called it, that is *The Problem of Susan.*