The Story of the Tucks

Mae Tuck:
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Can I start like that?

Miles Tuck:
Should't start like that

Mae:
Be patient with me, Winnie
I've never told this before

Once there was a man
A Man with a wife and a family

Jesse Tuck:
That's Miles and me

Mae:
Jesse, let me tell the story
I don't want to start a war
We tore from the west to settle in the east
Looking for a farm or some land at least

Jesse:
Get to the part where I fall from the tree

Miles:
No, you've got it all wrong

Mae:
Miles, Jesse
Then we found a wood

Jesse:
Yes, we found a wood
Can you guess which wood

Winnie:
Mine?

Jesse:
You're good

Mae:
Where we found ourselves a clearing
And camped for the night
Just the four of us

Miles:
Plus the cat and the horse
They play a crucial part

Mae:
Yes, Miles of course
We slept by a spring near an old ash tree

Jesse:
And that's where I carved a "T"

Mae:
Jesse!

Miles:
In the morning
In the morning

Miles, Jesse, Mae:
We had no way of knowing
Without even thinking we drank from the spring
Who knew that spring would change everything?

Mae:
Except for the horse
Everybody drank
Even the cat

Miles:
Remember that?

Jesse:
You can lead a horse to water

Miles:
I think she knows the phrase

May:
So days went by
Then months
Then years
With an ordinary life

Miles:
So it appears

May:
The old horse died at 25

Jesse:
But the cat was still alive

Miles: We weren't changing
Jesse: We weren't changing
Mae: We weren't changing
Miles:
We weren't growing
Jesse:
We weren't growing

All three:
We had no way of knowing
Nobody was thinking
It's because of the spring
Who knew that spring would change everything

Mae:
The town began to talk Jesse:
People shied away Winnie look at me
They were so outraged Winnie listen here though
We hadn't aged
Our lives in pious
Our looks perverse I survived a great fall
He survived much worse

Miles:
Shut up Jesse

Mae: Jesse:
Still we didn't know Yes of course we knew
Didn't know the spring How could we not know though
Was the cause of it
Or where we'd sit on the delicate balance
Between a blessing and a curse The greatest family
In the universe

Miles:
Don't confuse the girl

All three:
The cat and the horse
The "T" on the tree
The drink that changed us eternally
That's our secret keep it locked up tight

Winnie:
But I still don't understand

Miles:
Enough
Alright
We're not aging
We're not growing
And none of us know why
Once upon a time we drank from your spring
And now we'll never die

Jesse:
And that's the story of the Tucks
The end