Mother tells her fairy tale From Brothers Grimm Someone knocking at the door Don't let him in My mother cooks nice things to eat And tells us tales to go to sleep Once asleep I start to sail To the land of the fairy tale Mother tells her fairy tale About a king who never fails To end it happily End it happily End the fairy tale Father comes home late from work As hard as nails His stony footsteps on the stairs Ends the fairy tale But is this such a very sad thing? It was a tale about a very bad king So mother kindly closed the page And locked my dreamworld in a cage Mother tells her fairy tale (You've got to end it) About a king who never fails to (You've got to end it) (Repeat X 3)