How Can I Refuse - Live Action Video from Barbie: the Princess and the Pauper

The song is from the film Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper. In the song Preminger plans to marry Princess Anneliese and take over Queen Genevieve’s bankrupt kingdom. Since I live so close to an old mine we decided to go there and film this as a real life/live action version of the animated music video. Some of the talking in the middle of the video was edited away to make it shorter, it was too hard to film the entire scene in the mine. Song: How Can I refuse by Martin Short. Original Version Preminger (singing): I’ve been bowing, I’ve been scraping, I’ve been lying like a rug, And for ten long years I’ve had to pay my dues. But today I’m escaping, for the last gold has been dug! It was waiting there so How could I refuse? I’m returning home a hero Who’s discovered mighty wealth, And what better husband could a princess choose? I’m the suitor who will suit her, Bring the kingdom back to health, And I’ll wear the crown for How c
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