As if in a Dream

Well your honor, it started while I was enjoying

The best luncheon that could be provided in

Short notice at the Red Lion

I was about half way through Lobster Thermador

When I heard it

As if in a dream I heard a distance sound approaching

As if in a dream I heard a draw up in the yard

As if in a dream it was abandoned, a vehicle so grand

And he parked it there with no one left on guard

As if in a dream I felt my legs begin to buckle

As if in a dream I thought the ground beneath me shook

As if in a dream I was in motion and with a harmless notion

It wouldn't hurt to have a little look

Some say things stranger things have happened

Things may not be as they seem

That, according to the toad

Is a sorry episode

Or if it came about if it were a dream

As if in a dream all sense of right or wrong escaped me

As if in a dream, I sat down in the driver's seat

As if in a dream though it surprised me

The car had hypnotized me

I set the brake and drove off down the street

As if in a dream I felt my foot upon the pedal

As if in a dream I heard the engine's haunting sound

As if in a dream I lost control, you say the car was stolen!

I say it was the other way around!

Some say things stranger things have happened

Things may not be as they seem

That, according to the toad

Is a sorry episode

Or if it came about as if it were a dream

Just picture it Joanna, the calling of the road

The majesty the grandeur and the power

The car was speeding forwards, but I was in a trance

Believing this it, was my finest hour

You must believe that every word is true

The moment I saw the car, I knew

I had to have it!

I have seldom heard a guilty plea proclaimed with such enthusiasm

Watch me I'm there and squirming

Watch me and feed me and sweat

It's just a case of confirming the sentence you get!

Someone's ego is swollen

Deserves to be brought back to size

Clearly the car had been stolen

And we'll have the toad as a prize!

Some say things stranger things have happened

Things may not be as they seem

That, according to the toad

Is a sorry episode

Or if it came about if it were a dream

Go, on, Toad, just say you're sorry

You must know that you have done wrong

Show repentance, than your sentence may not be so long

Just admit you stole the mower

Just plead guilty to the crime

Toad be humble for you'll crumble

When you're serving time

Gentle folk of the jury

Gentle folk? They're all skunks and weasels

They just want to steal Toad

That's what's this all about, can't you see?

Gentle folk of the jury, have you reached your verdict?

We have

What is it?

Ah, guilty!

Mrs. Duck, could you tell us please, what is the stiffest penalty we can impose

Without of course giving the prisoner the benefit of any doubt?

Because there is none

His case presents a slew of violations

Violations

The likes of which this court has long defiled

Long defiled

Sight twelve months for the theft

The outer walls bereft

In view of which the penalty seems mild

It does mild

Add three years for the crime of reckless driving

Which is clement

And fifteen years for cheeking the police

A heinous crime

Well it's nineteen years which nigh seems plenty

Well just round it out to twenty

That's the price one pays to breach the peace

To breach the peace

Well there we largely have it

On every single count

This court has found you guilty of the crime

The law is quite specific, in cases of this kind

The misfit was trembling in time

So lock him in the dungeon of this town

For twenty years

That's all

This is outrageous!

No, take him down!

Watch that tyrant tremble

Hear the villain scream

Will that bandit understand it isn't all a dream

Watch that tyrant tremble

Hear the villain scream

Find his spot already incarcerated in a jail

There must be an end to everyone

Take away his freedom

Take away that feather

Take away that gospel

Mr. Toad

Toad