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Montage 3: Mother Lyrics


[MAGGIE]
Please take this message
To Mother from me.

Carry it with you
Across the blue sea.
"Mother, oh, Mother,
Wherever I go
Your Maggie is missin' you so."

"Mother, oh, Mother,
Wherever I go
Your Maggie is missin' you so."

[AL]
Dad would take Mom to Roseland.
She'd come home with her shoes on her hand.

[DIANA]
Mama fat,
Always in the kitchen cooking all the time.

[SHEILA]
Darling, I can tell you now,
Your father went through life with an open fly.

[VAL]
Tits! Where are my tits?

[CASSIE]
Listen to your mother.
those stage and movie people got there
Because they're special.

[GREG]
You take after your father's side of the family,
The ugly side.

[PAUL]
Wait until your father gets home.

[DON]
Swear to God and hope to die.

[CHORUS]
Goodbye twelve
Goodbye thirteen
Hello La-a-a-ove.

[AL]
Early to bed,
Early to rise.
Your broad goes out
Other guys.

[CASSIE]
A diaphragm, a diaphragm.
I thought a diaphragm was up
Here,
Where you breathe.

[DON]
I bought a car.
I bought my first car.

[MIKE (Spoken)]
Padiddle.

[CHORUS]
Changes, oh,
Up a-...

[MARK]
Ev'ry girl I know has lockjaw of Down below.
The legs.

[CONNIE]
You're not leaving this house
'Til you're
Twenty-one.

[KRISTINE]
The ugliest boy asked me to the
Prom,
I stayed home.

[MAGGIE]
Life is a ashtray.

[VAL]
Shit.
Made it through High School
Without
Growing tits.

[CHORUS]
...Doubt,
To break out
It's a mess.

[RICHIE]
My trouble is wine, women, and
Song.
I can't get any of 'em.

Time to grow,
Time to go,
A-do...

[MIKE]
Your brother's going to
Medical School,

And you're dropping out to be a
Chorus boy.
Nothing!

[BEBE]
Steve McQueen out.
Nureyev in!

[DIANA]
You gotta know somebody to be
Somebody.

[MAGGIE]
Gra-du-a-tion!

[SHEILA]
All you run around with are
Bums.

[AL]
I got nancy's picture, Annabelle's
Locket,
Cynthia's ring and Lucy's pants.
Head-on collision!
Eddie got killed...

[RICHIE]
Let's dance, let's dance.

[PAUL]
What am I gonna say when he calls on me?

[JUDY]
My only adolescence, my only adolescence
My only adolescence.

[JUDY AND KRISTINE]
My only adolescence.

[KRISTINE]
My only adolescence...

[DIANA AND BEBE]
Where did it go? It was so...
Where did it go? It was so...

[VAL, DIANA AND BEBE]
Where did it go? It was so...
Where did it go? It was so...

[GREG, BOBBY AND MIKE]
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior,
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior.

[SHEILA, MAGGIE AND DON]
Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen,
Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen.

[MARK, CONNIE, CASSIE, RICHIE, MAGGIE, JUDY, PAUL, LARRY AND AL]
Suddenly I'm Seventeen and

[ALL]
Suddenly I'm Seventeen and...
Suddenly I'm Seventeen and...
Suddenly,

There's a lot
I am not
Certain of,

Goodbye twelve,
Goodbye thirteen,
Hello...

[Break into 4 groups and Scat counterpoint]
[GIRLS]
Doo,
Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo,
Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo,
Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo,
Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo, Dit dit doo,

[GIRLS]
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du dit,
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du dit,
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du dit,
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du dit,
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du dit,
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du dit,
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du dit,
Dee du dee du dee du, dee dee du.

[BOYS]
Wah, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah,
Wah, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah,
Wah, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah,
Wah, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah.

[BOYS]
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah,

[RICHIE]
Gimme the ball,
Gimme the ball,
Gimme the ball. Yeah!

Gimme the ball,
Gimme the ball,
Gimme the ball. Yeah!

I was always runnin' around shoutin',
"Gimme the ball,
Gimme the ball,
Gimme the ball. Yeah!"

I was so enthusiastic.
I was in to ev'rything.
The yearbook is filled wiht my pictures,
And I was lucky 'cause I got

A scholarship to college.
A scholarship to college!

[ALL (Chorus plus offstage voices)]
So he went.

[RICHIE]
Yes, I went.

[ALL]
Yes, he went.

[RICHIE]
So I'm gonna be this kindergarten teacher...

[spoken]
Imagine me- this kindergarten teacher? And I thought...

[Sings]
Shit.

[ALL]
Shit, Richie.

[RICHIE]
Shit.

[ALL]
Shit, Richie.

[RICHIE]
What are you gonna be?
[ALL]
Shit, Richie,Shit, Richie.
[RICHIE]
When you get shoved
[ALL]
Shit, Richie,Shit, Richie.
[RICHIE]
Outta here,
Honey, ain't nobody
[ALL]
Shit, Richie, Shit, Richie
[RICHIE]
Gonna be standin' there
With no scholarship to life.
[ALL]
Shit, Richie, Shit, Richie.

[RICHIE]
And I was scared.

[ALL]
Shit, Richie.

[RICHIE]
Scared.

[ALL]
Shit, Richie.

[RICHIE]
Scared!!

[ALL]
Shit, Richie.

[GIRLS (Chorus & all offstage voices 'til end)]
My braces gone

[BOYS]
My pimples gone.

[ALL]
My childhood gone,
Goodbye

Goodbye twelve.
Goodbye thirteen.
Goodbye fourteen.
Goodbye fifteen.
Goodbye sixteen.
Goodbye seventeen.
Hello love.

Go to it.
Go to it.
Go to it.
Go to it.
Go to it.
Go to it.

[BOYS]
And now life really begins.

[GIRLS]
Go to it.

[BOYS]
And now life really begins.

[GIRLS]
Go to it.

[BOYS]
And now life really beigins.

[GIRLS]
Go to it.

[BOYS]
And now life really begins.

[GIRLS]
Go to it.

[BOYS]
Go to it.
Last Update: February, 21st 2014

Chorus Line, A Lyrics

  1. I Hope I Get It
  2. I Can Do That
  3. At the Ballet
  4. Sing!
  5. Montage 1: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love
  6. Montage 2: Nothing
  7. Montage 3: Mother
  8. Montage 4: Gimmie the Ball
  9. Nothing
  10. Dance: Ten, Looks: Three
  11. Music and the Mirror
  12. One
  13. The Tap Combination
  14. What I Did for Love
  15. One [Reprise]/Finale

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