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Thread #24930   Message #3197572
Posted By: GUEST,Bill Burkett
28-Jul-11 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Don't Go in the Lion's Cage Tonight
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Don't Go in the Lion's Cage Tonight
A mother once she had a lovely daughter. the mother was a actress on the stage.
She traveled with a troupe of well trained lions, and each night she went in the lions cage.
One day the daughter had a premonition, that everything that night would not go right.
And so she told her mother in the kitchen "Oh please! Don't go in the lions cage tonight, no, not tonight.

Don't go in the cage tonight, mother darling, for the lions are ferocious and may bite.
And when they get their angry fits, they may tear you all to bits, so, don't go in the lions cage tonight."

The mother heeded not the daughter's warning, but to her turned and softly said: "GO TO!
I think I ought to know what I am doing. When I'm around the lions all feel blue."
That night as she was dancing in the lions cage, the lions thought that they would like to eat.
And as they bit the darling mother's head off, these words came back to her, so pure and sweet:

Don't go in the cage tonight, mother darling....