RAPUNZEL - Day 21 - 30 in 30 Challenge

I started this drawing with a thought and a song: The thought was an image of uneven yellow lines, the song was “I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair” I wasn’t really thinking of painting hair, just how would I draw the song. This is the result. The title of the song was long so I mused on the golden fleece, spinning straw into gold, Shirley Temple and RAPUNZEL The latter seemed most appropriate.

I drew this in the Notes app and was exasperated by the sipe function continually removing my page and popping up things. I couldn’t find a way to turn it off. If anyone has the answer please tell me.

I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air;
I see her tripping where the bright streams play,
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way.
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour.
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er:
Oh! I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.

I long for Jeanie with the daydawn smile,
Radiant in gladness, warm with winning guile;
I hear her melodies, like joys gone by,
Sighing round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die:—
Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,—
Wailing for the lost one that comes not again:
Oh! I long for Jeanie, and my heart bows low,
Never more to find her where the bright waters flow.

I sigh for Jeanie, but her light form strayed
Far from the fond hearts round her native glade;
Her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown,
Flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone.
Now the nodding wild flowers may wither on the shore
While her gentle fingers will cull them no more:
Oh! I sigh for Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.

Steven Foster 1854