Act One cont...
7. IT COULDN'T PLEASE ME MORE
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
Herr Schultz. Can I believe what I see?
But this is too much to accept.
It's so rare...so costly...so luxious...
If you brought me diamonds
If you brought me pearls
If you brought me roses
Like some other gents might bring to other girls
It couldn't please me more
Than the gift I see
A pineapple for me
HERR SCHULTZ:
If in your emotion
You began to sway
Went to get some air
Or grabbed a chair to keep from fainting dead away
It couldn't please me more
Than to see you cling
To the pineapple I bring
BOTH:
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
I can hear Hawaiian breezes blow
BOTH:
HERR SCHULTZ:
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
Even so.
How am I to thank you?
HERR SCHULTZ:
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
HERR SCHULTZ:
That might be nice
But frankly, it would give me gas
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
Then we shall leave it here
Not to eat, but see:
BOTH:
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
HERR SCHULTZ:
BOTH:
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
But you must not bring me any more pineapples.
Do you hear? It is not proper.
It is a gift a young man would bring to his lady-love. It makes me blush.
HERR SCHULTZ:
But there is no-one...no-one in all of Berlin who is more deserving
If I could, I would fill your room with pineapples!
A pineapple
For you
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
BOTH: (with EMCEE)
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
I think I will lie down for a few moments. My head is spinning!
HERR SCHULTZ:
Fräulein Schneider...good evening.
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
Good evening, Herr Schultz.
I am...overwhelmed!
8. TOMORROW BELONGS TO ME
BOY SOPRANO:
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gather together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
The branch of the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But soon, says a whisper, "Arise, arise"
Tomorrow belongs...
EMCEE:
9. MAYBE THIS TIME
SALLY:
Maybe this time, I'll be lucky
Maybe this time, he'll stay
Maybe this time, for the first time
Love won't hurry away
He will hold me fast
I'll be home at last
Not a loser anymore
Like the last time
And the time before
Everybody loves a winner
So nobody loved me
'Lady peaceful', 'lady happy'
That's what I long to be
All the odds are in my favour
Something's bound to begin
It's got to happen, happen sometime
Maybe this time I'll win
Everybody loves a winner
So nobody loved me
'Lady peaceful', 'lady happy'
That's what I long to be
All the odds are in my favour
Something's bound to begin
It's got to happen, happen sometime
Maybe this time
Maybe this time I'll win
10. MONEY
EMCEE:
Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go 'round
A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
A buck or a pound
A buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around
That clinking clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round
GIRLS:
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Monehy money
EMCEE:
If you happen to be rich
And you feel like a night's entertainment
You can pay for a gay escapade
If you happen to be rich
And alone, and you need a companion
You can ring-ting-a-ling, for the maid
If you happen to be rich
And you find you are left by your lover
Though you moan and you groan quite a lot
You can take it on the chin
Call a cab, and begin
To recover on your fourteen carat yacht |
GIRLS:
....Ooooooh
...Money
Money money money money
money money money money
....Ooooooh
...Money
....Ooooooh
...Money
Money money money money
Money money money money
....Oooooooh
...Money
|
EMCEE:
Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
Of that we can be sure
Pffft on being poor
ALL:
Money money money
Money money money
Money money money
Money money money
Money money money money
Money money money money
Money money money money
EMCEE AND GIRLS: (in canon)
If you haven't any coal in the stove
And you freeze in the winter
And you curse to the wind at your fate
When you haven't any shoes on your feet
And your coat's thin as paper
And you look thirty pounds underweight
When you go to get a word of advice
From the fat little pastor
He will tell you to love evermore
But when hunger comes a rap
rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat at the window
GIRLS:
EMCEE:
GIRLS:
EMCEE:
Ooh, hunger!
See how love flies out the door...
For
EMCEE:
Money makes the world...
The world...
The world...
Money makes the
...go around |
GIRLS:
...go around
...go around
...go around
...go around |
EMCEE:
That clinking clanking sound of
Money money money money
Money money money money
EMCEE:
Get a little
Get a little
Money money
Money money
Mark, a yen, a buck
Or a pound
That clinking clanking
Clunking sound
Is all that makes the world go round
|
GIRLS:
Money money
Money money
Money money
Money money
Get a little
Get a little
Get a little
Get a little
Money money money money
Money money
Money money |
EMCEE:
It makes the world go round!!
11. MARRIED
HERR SCHULTZ:
You hesitate because you have never been married.
It frightens you. Believe me, it can work wonders...
How the world can change
It can change like that...
Due to one little word:
Married
See a palace rise
From a two room flat
Due to one little word:
Married
And the old despair
That was often there
Suddenly ceases to be
For you wake one day
Look around and say
Somebody wonderful married me
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
You don't think it would be better simply to go on as before?
HERR SCHULTZ:
FRÄULEIN KOST:
O wie wunderbar
Nichts ist so wie-es-war
Durch ein einziges wort:
Heirat
Aus dem erdgeschoss
Wird ein märchenschloss
Durch ein einziges wort:
Heirat
Und das grau in grau
Wird auf einmal blau
Wie noch kein blau jemals war
Und dann steht man da
Sagt beseligh 'ja
heut' wird main traum
Nicht so grau in grau
Ah! wie wunderbar
Nichts ist so wie-es-war
Durch ein einziges wort:
Heirat
Aus dem erdgeschoss
Wird ein märchenschloss
Durch ein einziges wort:
Heirat
HERR SCHULTZ:
And the old despair
That was often there
Suddenly ceases to be |
FRÄULEIN KOST:
Und das grau in grau
Wird auf einmal blau
Heut nacht mein traum jemals war |
HERR SCHULTZ & FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
For you wake one day
Look around and say
HERR SCHULTZ:
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
BOTH:
12. TOMORROW BELONGS TO ME (Reprise)
FRÄULEIN KOST:
Herr Ludwig! You are not leaving so early?
ERNST:
I do not find this party amusing.
FRÄULEIN KOST:
Ah - but it is just beginning.
Comme, we will make it amusing - you and I.
Herr Ludwig, this is for you.
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gather together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
The branch of the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
Herr Ludwig! Sing with me!
FRÄULEIN KOST & ERNST:
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But soon, says a whisper, "Arise, arise"
Tomorrow belongs to me
FRÄULEIN KOST:
ALL: (EXCEPT FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER, HERR SCHULTZ, CLIFF AND SALLY)
Oh fatherland, fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come when the world is mine
Tomorrow belongs to me!
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