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merylqueenstreep:

Greens, greens and nothing but greens: parsley, peppers, cabbages and celery, asparagus and watercress and fiddleferns, lettuce…

I can listen to Meryl’s rapping Witch all day long!

Baker: Who might that be?
Baker’s wife: We’ve sold our last loaf of bread
Baker: It’s the witch from next door!
Baker’s wife: We have no bread
Witch: I don’t want your bread!
Baker: Then what is it you wish?
Witch: It’s not what I wish! It’s what you wish!
Nothing cooking in that belly now, is there?
And there will never be!
Unless you do exactly as I say!
In three day’s time a blue moon will appear
Only then the curse will be undone
Baker’s wife: What curse?
Witch: The one I placed on this house
Baker: What are you talking about?
Witch: In the past, when you were no more than a babe
Your father brought his young wife and you to this cottage
They were a lovely couple
But not lovely neighbours!
You see, your mother was with child
And she developed an unusual appetite
She admired my beautiful garden
And she told your father
That what she wanted
More than anything in the world was

(rapping) Greens, greens, nothing but greens:
Parsley, peppers, cabbages and celery
Asparagus and watercress and fiddleferns and lettuce! He said, “All right,”
But it wasn’t, quite, ‘cause I caught him in the autumn in my garden one night!
He was robbing me
Raping me
Rooting through my rutabaga, raiding my arugula and ripping up my rampion (My champion! My favorite!)
I should have laid a spell on him right there
I could turned him into stone
Or a dog or a chair…

But I let him have the rampion, I’d lots to spare, in return, however, I said, “Fair is fair: You can let me have the baby that your wife will bear and we’ll call it square”
Baker: I had a brother?
Witch: No! But you had a sister
Baker: Where is she?
Witch: She’s mine now. And you’ll never find her
Small price to pay for what else your father stole from me
It cost me my youth and my beauty
My mother warned me
She would punished me with the curse of ugliness if I ever lost any of the…
Wife: Lost what?
Witch: The beans!
Baker&Wife: Beans?
Witch: The special beans!
I let him go, I didn’t know he’d stolen my beans!
I was watching him crawl, back over the wall! When bang! Crash! And the lightning flash!

And that’s another story, never mind, anyway, at last the big day came
I made my claim. “Oh, don’t take away the baby,” They shrieked and screeched
But I did, and I hid her where she’ll never be reached
Your father cried, and your mother died. And for extra measure, I admit it was a pleasure, I said, “Sorry,
I’m still not mollified. And I laid little spell on them
You, too, son
That your family tree
Would always be a barren one…
Baker’s wife: No!
Baker: How could you do that?
Witch: And when your mother died
Your father deserted you
Your father was no father
So why should you be?
Now there’s no more fuss and there’s no more scenes, and my garden thrives, you should see my nectarines! But I’m tellling you the same I tell kings and queens:
Don’t ever never ever mess around with my greens!
Especially the beans!