King's Quest VII "Land Beyond Dreams" Storyboard

The MIDI version of song "Land Beyond Dreams" from King's Quest VII appears to have a verse that is missing from the digital version. I was puzzled about this for a long time, and never learned the reason for this peculiarity until now.

I recently had the amazing luck to find the increasingly rare Roberta Williams Anthology in a thrift store, which includes scans of various design sketches from KQ7, including a storyboard for the intro -- and that storyboard includes Rosella singing the missing verse!

Rather than merely describing my discovery on various message boards, I decided to share the joy by compiling the sketches of the storyboard into a video synced with the "Land Beyond Dreams" MIDI and uploading it to YouTube, where it would undoubtedly reach a larger audience.

By the way, one of the storyboard frames that appears during the song is missing, so I inserted a blank placeholder with the accompanying lyrics.

Images (c) Sierra On-Line, art by Marc Hudgins, music by Mark Seibert, MIDI from www.queststudios.com

EDIT -These are the lyrics from the missing verse:
They tell me it's my duty, a princess must be wed
You'll learn to love the handsome prince, there's nothing you should dread
But I'm not prepared to set my freedom on the shelf
How can I trust with someone what I don't understand myself?

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Film & Animation

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• king's quest vii

[SyCuJa]

do u have the troll music?

[Akril]

I don't know which music you're referring to. You might be able to find it at queststudios[.]com, though.

[dollors1]

This is really interesting!

Although I'm having trouble figuring out what the omitted line is?

[Akril]

If you mean that line that doesn't have a picture drawn, it's "Aren't you happy?" If you mean the entire missing verse, I've added the lyrics to the video description.

[12345olemole]

Do you have the Storyboard of the whole Intro?

[Akril]

Yes, I do. I might upload it somewhere when I have the time.

[FutileGrief]

♥ ♥

[DarkestElemental616]

@SyCuJa The user musicofdaventry has the entire soundtrack.

[SyCuJa]

watch?v=HySvyGnPEOM

that clip 6:10 in

[dollors1]

"The MIDI version of song "Land Beyond Dreams" from King's Quest VII [b]appears to have a verse that is missing from the digital version. [/b]I was puzzled about this for a long time, and never learned the reason for this peculiarity until now."

This is the one I am referring to.

[purpletwist64]

what if some on put up a Fandub of the extended song..lol just saying