Bells in his hair

Okay. In the eighth grade, Shelley and Maryelizabeth were in a musical version of The Little Match Girl. Shelley was the Little Match Girl and died at the end. Maryelizabeth played a panda bear whose lines were, "SURE we talk. But people rarely listen!" and "Watch your match!" We've been discussing how strange it was that our drama and music teachers decided to stage a musical in which the lead character freezes to death and have it performed for a bunch of children in kindergarten. Even though I was in the other half of our grade, the group that did The Pirate of Penzance, which is almost unfairly better than the depressing tripe my friends had to perform, I still somehow learned the songs for their musical because let's face it, mostly we just sat around singing (to the annoyance of everyone around us) and basically still do.

And one of the songs that we all still remember goes something like this:

God sits behind the sun with bells in his hair

(Bells in his hair, bells in his hair) ...

He's always hungry so he fills the trees

With apricots and honeybees

Golden pears and summer strawberries

Then he sits and he makes a dream for me ...

Or something like that. Maryelizabeth also remembers a verse to that song that started, "God has a whisper only children can hear." And Shelley clearly remembers a song called "Bright Star, Wishing Star" that she sang before her big death scene. So I decided to Google these songs so we could relive them in the entirety of their glory, and I cannot find a damn thing about them. We're starting to wonder if our music teacher just made them up and think that they never really existed outside the stage in our school gymnasium.

I did find this page that refers to a musical version in which the lead character is named Liesl, and Shelley thinks that was her name, so I guess this could be it, but I cannot believe that on the whole Internet there does not exist a tiny iota of evidence that these songs really existed.

Does God sitting behind the sun with bells in his hair ring a bell with anyone?