Maybe This Time – Cabaret

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:

Ahh….

FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:

I can hear Hawaiian breezes blow

BOTH:

Ahh….

HERR SCHULTZ:

It’s from California

FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:

Even so.

• How am I to thank you?

HERR SCHULTZ:

Kindly let it pass

FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:

Would you like a slice?

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:

A pineapple…

FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:

For me

HERR SCHULTZ:

From me

BOTH:

Ahhhh…..

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:

From you

BOTH: (with EMCEE)

Ahhhh…

• Ahhhh…

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:

To me!

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:

At the window…

EMCEE:

Who’s there?

GIRLS:

Hunger!

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:

No.

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:

Somebody wonderful

FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:

Somebody wonderful

BOTH:

Married me

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:

Everybody!

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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