The Dragon Green

from Ike's Green Album by Icarus Tyree

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Once upon a mountaintop, there lived a dragon green
He hid behind the rocks, so he was hardly ever seen
Tales were bore in days of yore that he was cruel and mean,
So he believed them

In the night he'd take the farmer's cattle and his sheep
And thought it was the kind of thing an evil dragon keeps
But he would let them go before the stars had gone to sleep
He didn't eat them

And I say

Oh my lonely dragon friend
You needn't hide away and pretend you aren't sweet
If you would just come down you'd show the town
They needn't fear the dragon green

Now and then, a knight in shining armor came to say,
"I've come for you, O Dragon!" But they never tried to stay
When bouts of blue and yellow fire crackled on display
He had to scare them

Then one day came came climbing up a farmer, hardly brave
She said to him: "O Dragon, in your dark and dismal cave
My only brother's stranded" but the dragon turned away,
He didn't care then

But when he beheld the crystal tears in her eyes
At thinking of her only brother starved until he died
Because he'd climbed and climbed until he'd gone up far too high and caused a cave-in

The dragon green stretched out his wings and went into the sky
To reach the places you can only grace when you can fly
He found the stranded brother, badly bruised but still alive
And then he saved him

And she said

Oh my lonely dragon friend
You needn't hide away and pretend you aren't sweet
If you would just come down you'd show the town
They needn't fear the dragon green

Once inside a mountaintop there lived a dragon green
He lived behind the rocks, so he was hardly ever seen
Tales were bore, but he was more than what a dragon seems
So don't believe them

Oh my lonely dragon friend
You needn't hide away and pretend you aren't sweet
If you would just come down you'd show the town
They needn't fear the dragon green

Oh my lonely dragon friend
You needn't hide away and pretend you aren't sweet
If you would just come down you'd show the town
They needn't fear the dragon green

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from Ike's Green Album, released November 24, 2021

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