Green-Eyed Sue
The third song in the cycle departs farthest from the original story. Wendy complains to Peter that she'd like to have more girls on her crew. Peter locates a disaffected tomboy named Green-Eyed Sue who is eager to visit Neverland and escape the family that disapproves of her piratical dreams. Sue becomes Wendy's first mate upon the retirement of Smee. More "Lost Girls" are located, and learn pirating from Wendy and Sue.
Tales of Wendy and her ship begin to spread through other lands of fantasy, and the pirate girls become notorious to the point that they are asked to lead the Royal Fleet of the fairies by Titania and Oberon. Wendy agrees if and only if the Lost Girls can be permitted to keep their standing appointment on Saturdays with the Lost Boys. The offer is accepted; Wendy becomes an admiral and liaison between Neverland and Fairyland.
Eventually Wendy makes good on the promise she made in the first song of the cycle, to use the pirate ship to "set a course for home". (Whether or not her brothers join her on this journey is unclear, although her farewell to Pan is included.) Wendy invites the Lost Girls to come home with her and be her sisters at home. Many of the pirate girls are happy; however, some, including Sue, do not wish to grow up or leave Neverland. Sue inherits the ship from Wendy with promises to carry on "the legacy of Red-Handed Jill". Under Sue's guidance, the pirate girls teach the Lost Boys how to sail.
The story ends with a caution from Tucker to brothers, instructing them to be kinder to their sisters lest they "turn pirate and run off to sail the seas". Further cautions are given to parents who discourage such fantasies in their daughters as improper or berate them for playing "boy's games", again lest they run away to follow their dreams.
Read more about this topic: Sirens (S. J. Tucker Album), The Wendy Trilogy
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