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Musical: Merrily We Roll Along
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Merrily We Roll Along (1961 - 1960) COMPANY Travelling's the fun, Flashing by the countryside. Merrily we roll along, roll along, Catching at dreams. Yesterday is done. See the pretty countryside, Everybody merrily, merrily (variously) Nineteen sixty-one: Some roads are easy, Some roads are breezy, Some roads the ride gets out of control, Grinds to a halt and ends in a hole. Some roads you stall before you can roll Bobby and Jackie and Jack CHARLEY Nineteen sixty BETH It's nineteen sixty FRANK And gosh, what a swell year it's been! ALL THREE So many blessings, Such wonders it has brought, You hardly know where to begin: There's Xerox and lasers, The Twist and the Pill, A city in Brazil BETH That no one wants to fill ALL THREE Krushchev stopped screaming And Librium came in. CHARLEY And Nixon didn't win. ALL THREE Good bye then to Ike and the brass, To years that were cozy but crass. It's true Ike was icky, But better him than Dicky Now meet the first First Family with class, En masse. CHARLEY There's Bobby BETH And Jackie FRANK And Jack. ALL THREE And myriads more in the back: There's Ethel and Teddy and Pat alone, CHARLEY Plus Eunice BETH And Peter FRANK And Jean TED And Joan CHARLEY And what's-his-name ? BETH Stephen. FRANK And hold the phone The one in the army OTHERS One in the army? FRANK Captain major CHARLEY Sargent! FRANK That's it! ALL THREE So many cards in the pack, You want to know how to keep track? Well, one is good looking and young and rich While one is good looking and young and rich, The rest are good looking and young and rich There isn't a lot that they lack, Not Bobby and Jackie and Jack And Ethel and Ted and Eunice and Pat and Joan and Steve and Peter and Jean and Sarge There's probably dozens of others at large, God knows And Joe and Rose. We're bringing back style to the White House. BETH I'm painting it cream for a start. ALL THREE We're making it into a cultural lighthouse For glamour and beauty and art. BETH Evenings of the Budapest playing Vivaldi And Munch doing bits of Ravel. I'll get Leontyne Price to sing her Medley from "Meistersinger" And Margot Fonteyn to dance "Giselle." CHARLEY Together? BOTH Won't it be perfectly swell? FRANK We'll have Bernstein play next On the Bechstein piano CHARLEY And Auden read poems and stuff BETH And Galina (making a lot of the pronunciation) Vishnevskya The Russian soprano Just pronouncing her name is refreshing enough! ALL THREE We're bringing back style to the White House, With casual culture the rule. FRANK Let's have Tebaldi CHARLEY She makes a guy feel good. BETH And Oleg Cassini Well, I think he's real good. CHARLEY And how about Heifetz? BETH And Callas! FRANK And Gielgud! ALL THREE And later, when everything's cool, We'll push them all into the pool. CHARLEY With Bobby BETH And Jackie FRANK And Jack, ALL THREE The White House is under attack. FRANK Eight years is the limit but eight will do, CHARLEY By then there'll be Bobby TED And Teddy, too BETH Or Peter or Stephen FRANK, CHARLEY, TED (to Beth) Or even you BETH And then there's the colonel BOYS Colonel? BETH Major? BOYS Major? BETH You know ! FRANK Sargent. BETH Yes. ALL THREE Dozens to take up the slack If anything goes out of whack. FRANK And some day elections will be unknown BETH 'Cause each of our kids will ascend the throne CHARLEY And their kids will have more kids of their own FRANK It's sort of a family knack ALL THREE Till half of the nation's Made up of relations Of Bobby and Jackie and Jack And Ethel and Ted and Eunice and Pat and Joan and Steve and Peter and Jean and Sarge And Joe and Rose and rows and rows and rows And rows and rows and rows and rows The decade is starting anew, And maybe the country is, too. Back to main page: Merrily We Roll Along Lyrics Broadway Merrily We Roll Along Lyrics
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