Show Me the Key
MARY:
I
DICKON:
She
MARY:
I’m a girl
DICKON:
She is a lass as took a graidly fancy to thee
Dost tha’ fear
MARY:
Tha’ mun not fear
DICKON:
She’s took thee on for like to vex thee
Nowt o’ the soart
MARY:
Nowt o’ the soart
DICKON:
She knows fair well, she mun not fright thee
MARY:
Canna tha’ show me
DICKON:
Fair better to know her
MARY:
Show me tha’ key
DICKON:
Show her tha’ key
She’s a lass and tha’ art right
As needs a spot where she can rest in
MARY:
I mun sit where I’m not be so
Thinkin’ thoughts or feel a guest in
DICKON:
Nowt o’ the soart
MARY:
Nowt o’ the soart
DICKON:
She’d fair be watchin’ for the spring
MARY:
I’ll not be climbin’ up
I’ll only be callin’ good morning
And fair low I’ll sing
DICKON: (spoken)
Well done, Mary!
MARY:
I’ll only walk around as like to see it for myself
If tha’ canst ‘low me visit
I’ll speak low e’en to thysel’
Tha’ll not be bothered night and day
By wenches racin’ ’round
I’ll but seem a silent dream
Standin’ on the secret ground
I’d but smell the growin’ things
Count the roses ‘gainst the wall
Hear thy babes when first they peck
Stretch my hand if they should fall
Or if tha’ likes, I’ll bring thee seeds
Or worms all in a mound
For if tha’ll have me for a friend
Tha’ll be the first I’ve found
I’m a lass
DICKON:
A trusty lass
MARY:
That took a graidly fancy to thee
Canna tha’ show me
DICKON:
Fair well tha’ dost know her
MARY:
Show me tha’ key
MARY AND DICKON:
Show me (her) tha’ key
DICKON:
And you’ll be here to see it
Stand and breathe it all the day
Stoop and feel it, stop and hear it
Spring, I say
A Bit of Earth
ARCHIBALD:
She wants a little bit of earth
She’ll plant some seeds
The seeds will grow
The flowers bloom
But is their bounty
What she needs
How can she chance
To love a little bit of earth
Does she not know
The earth is old
And doesn’t care if
One small girl wants things to grow
She needs a friend
She needs a father
Brother, sister
Mother’s arms
She needs to laugh
She needs to dance
And learn to work
Her girlish charms
She needs a home
The only thing she really needs
I cannot give
Instead she asks
A bit of earth
To make it live
She should have a pony
Gallop ‘cross the moor
She should have a doll’s house
With a hundred rooms per floor
Why can’t she ask for a treasure
Something that money can buy
That won’t die
When I’d give her the world
She asks, instead
For some earth
A bit of earth
She wants a little bit of earth
She’ll plant some seeds
The seeds will grow
The flowers bloom
Their beauty just the thing she need
She’ll grow to love the tender roses
Lilies fair, the iris tall
And then in fall, her bit of earth
Will freeze and kill them all
A bit of earth, a bit of earth
A bit of earth, a bit of earth
Storm I
MAJOR HOLMES:
Close the shutters
And lock the doors
ALBERT:
Brace the windows
As in it pours
FAKIR:
Candles only the ones you carry
LIEUTENANT SHAW:
Watch now
ROSE:
Checking supplies
AYAH AND CLAIRE:
Watching the skies
FEMALE DREAMERS:
Fares well the house that’s ready
ALL DREAMERS:
Comin’ a terrible storm
Looks like the sea in a gale
Branches are broken in half
Carried aloft like a sail
Not since I was a child
Have I heard such a horrible wail
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah….
Lily’s Eyes:
NEVILLE:
Strangely quiet, but now the storm
Simply rests to strike again
Standing, waiting, I think of her
I think of her
ARCHIBALD:
Strange, this mary, she leaves the room
Yet remains, she lingers on
Something stirs me to think of her
I think of her
NEVILLE:
From death she casts her spell
All night we hear her sighs
And now a girl has come
Who has her eyes
She has her eyes
The girl has Lily’s eyes
Those eyes that saw him happy long ago
Those eyes that gave him life
And hope he’d never known
How can he see the girl
And miss those hazel eyes
ARCHIBALD:
She has her eyes
The girl has Lily’s hazel eyes
Those eyes that closed and left me all alone
Those eyes I feel will never ever let me go
How can I see this girl who has her hazel eyes
In Lily’s eyes a castle
This house seemed to be
And I, her bravest knight became
My lady fair was she
NEVILLE:
She has her eyes
She has my Lily’s hazel eyes
Those eyes that loved my brother — never me
Those eyes that never saw me
Never knew I longed
To hold her close
To live at last in Lily’s eyes
ARCHIBALD:
Imagine me a lover
NEVILLE:
I longed for the day
She’d turn and see me standing there
ARCHIBALD AND NEVILLE:
Would God had let her stay
| NEVILLE: She has her eyes She has Lily’s hazel eyes Those eyes that first I loved so How can |
ARCHIBALD: In Lily’s eyes |
Storm II
MARY:
Someone is crying, just now I heard them
Someone in this house is crying
Why won’t they tell me, I know they’re lying
Someone here is lost or mad
I must try to find them
Beg them stop so I can sleep
I heard someone crying
Who though could it be
Someone in this house
Whom no one seems to see
Someone no one seems to hear, except for me
I heard someone crying
MARY AND AYAH:
I heard someone crying
ALBERT:
I heard someone
FAKIR:
I heard someone
AYAH:
I heard someone crying
ALICE:
Yes, there’s someone crying
ROSE:
Someone here is crying
DREAMERS:
Ah
CLAIRE:
Listen, someone’s crying
DREAMER WOMEN:
I heard someone
I heard someone
LILY:
I heard someone
Cry
Round-Shouldered Man
COLIN:
Some nights I dream
That a round-shouldered man
Comes in my room
On a beam of moonlight
He never says what he wants
He just sits with a book in his hands
And then I dream
That the round-shouldered man
Takes me off on a ride
Through the moors by moonlight
He never says where we’ll go
We just ride ‘cross the hills ’til dawn
And some night I’m going to ask him
Is the night sky black or blue
I know the answer’s in his book
Of all that’s good and true
And once I dreamed
That the round-shouldered man
Took my hand and we walked
To a secret garden
I never knew where we were
We just sat in the crook of a broken tree
Some night I’m going to ask him
How the old moon turns to new
I know the answer’s in his book
Of all that’s good and true
I know the answer’s in his book
Of all that’s good and true
Final Storm
DREAMERS:
Comin’ a terrible storm
Shakin’ the souls of the dead
Quakin’ the floor underfoot
Shakin’ the roof over head
Not since I was a child
Have I feared
ROSE:
Mistress mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
AYAH:
Not so well, she said, see the lily’s dead
Pull it up, and out you go
MAJOR HOLMES:
Mistress mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
CLAIRE:
Oh it’s dry, she wailed
See the iris failed
Dig it up, and out you go
ALL DREAMERS: (sung simultaneously with Claire)
It’s a maze this garden
It’s a maze of ways
FAKIR:
Mistress mary
Quite contrary
How does your garden
Grow
ALL DREAMERS: (sung simultaneously with Fakir)
Something wrong inside it
It’s a maze this garden
It’s a maze of ways
LEIUTENANT WRIGHT:
Had an early frost
Now it’s gone it’s lost
Dig it up, and out
You go
FEMALE DREAMERS: (sung simultaneously with
Lieutenant Wright)
High on a hill
MAN AND WOMAN: (sung simultaneously with
Lieutenant Wright)
Something
Wrong is inside it
DREAMERS:
It’s a maze this garden
It’s a maze of ways
Meant to lead a soul astray
It’s a maze this garden
It’s a maze of ways
It’s a maze this garden
It’s a maze of ways
Meant to lead a soul astray
DREAMERS (ALBERT):
Mistress mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
Had an early frost
Now it’s gone, it’s lost
Dig it up, and out you go (Mary!)
You’re out, you go (Mary!)
Out, you go
[Lily hums…come to my garden]
MARY: (spoken)
There it is! There’s the door
There’s the door to the garden