A New Rock Musical Lizzie Borden the Musical - Maybe Someday (reprise)/Thirteen Days in Taunton Lyrics
LIZZIE (spoken) My name is Lizzie Andrew Borden. Not Elizabeth. Lizzie. Andrew, after my father, I was so christened. I am innocent. I leave it to my council to speak for me
(sung) Maybe someday I'll walk in the open
EMMA (spoken) My full name is Emma L. Borden, I am the sister of miss Lizzie Borden
LIZZIE Maybe someday We'll all forget
BRIDGET (spoken) The name's Bridget Sullivan. I was sometimes called Maggie by miss Emma and miss Lizzie
LIZZIE Maybe someday They won't whisper point and stare
ALICE (spoken) I am Alice Russell
LIZZIE But my secret's safe now
ALICE (spoken) I exchanged calls with miss Lizzie Borden regularly. She always received me upstairs
LIZZIE My secret's Safe Now
ALICE (spoken) Lizzie spoke of trouble with her stepmother. That Mrs. Borden thought so-and-so. But the whole thing was, as far as I could see, that one's own mother might've had more influence over the father. It was the father more than the mother. They were young girls. But young girls cannot go and do and have
LIZZIE They tried to keep me down But I said no I'm moving uptown honey It's where I'm gonna go But I'm down here in the big house Help me count the days I've got thirteen days in Taunton Then I'll fly away
EMMA (spoken) I have no recollection of anything of that kind. No sir, I don't seem to remember it. I don't remember what you asked me. I don't remember the question, nor the answer. I can only say I don't remember giving it. I don't know whether I did or not, I can't tell you. I don't know. I was in Fairhaven
LIZZIE I got my dream team workin' On my defense It cost me a bloody fortune But I spared no expense 'Cause let me tell you Losing is not a game I play I'll be leaving by the front door When I fly away I got twelve more days in Taunton And then I'll fly away I got Then I'll fly away
ALICE (spoken) About seven o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, August third I was waiting for miss Lizzie Borden. But when she came she said-
BRIDGET (spoken) She was on her way to Benson's pharmacy for prussic acid. To clean a stain
ALICE (spoken) She said "Mr. and Mrs. Borden were awfully sick last night. We were all sick, all but Maggie."
BRIDGET (spoken) I had a sick headache and I was sick to my stomach
ALICE (spoken) And she said Mrs. Borden even told the doctor she thought she had been poisoned. I asked her who would do something like that and she didn't know. She said "I can't sleep at night. I'm that afraid somebody will do something."
EMMA & LIZZIE Now that you mention it I Can't stand the night I sit here in the darkness Waiting for the light
LIZZIE Eleven days in Taunton waiting For the break of day Ten more days in this hole Then I'll fly away
They love me in the jailhouse They love me in the street They love me in the courtroom Yeah I know I got 'em beat I got nine more days in Taunton
ALICE This This This is not love I don't know what it is
LIZZIE When this whole thing is over I've got to get away
EMMA (spoken) Well, I don't know how to describe it to you
BRIDGET (spoken) It was not a Calico dress
ALICE (spoken) It was a cheap cotton Bedford cord
EMMA (spoken) An American cloth
ALICE (spoken) All cotton
EMMA (spoken) I think one part of it was black or very-
BRIDGET (spoken) Light blue
ALICE (spoken) With a small dark figure
BRIDGET (spoken) A sprig
ALICE (spoken) I did not suggest to miss Lizzie Borden that she change her dress
EMMA (spoken) I think she did
ALICE (spoken) I saw no blood on that dress. Not a drop
LIZZIE Can we just drop the dress talk The subject's getting dull
LIZZIE & BRIDGET Gonna buy myself a brand new dress Gonna buy a whole damn closet full 'Cause I got plenty of money Girl, I just got paid
LIZZIE Four more days in Taunton Then I'll fly away
BRIDGET (spoken) After Mrs. Borden told me to wash the windows, I didn't see her anymore until I found her dead on the upstairs. I don't remember to have heard a sound Of anyone about the house until Mr. Borden came to the door. As I unlocked it I said "Oh, P'shaw" and miss Lizzie laughed at the top of the stairs
LIZZIE You say that I'm not weeping That I'm not dressed in black Call me a Yankee Clytemnestra Well imagine that I've done my share of crying Lord my dues is paid I got three more days in Taunton Then I'll fly away
ALICE (spoken) Her sister turned and said "What are you going to do?"
EMMA (spoken) I swear I didn't say it. The reason I say I didn't say so is because I didn't say so
ALICE (spoken) And Lizzie said "I'm going to burn this old thing up."
EMMA (spoken) There was nothing of that kind said
ALICE (spoken) It was covered in-
EMMA (spoken) Paint! It was soiled, just as any dress would get soiled And I said "Why don't you?" or something like that. I can't tell the exact words
ALICE (spoken) I am quite sure I left the room and told the officer That I saw miss Lizzie Borden burn that dress
ALICE & LIZZIE Turn of the century Turn of the screw Turn of the tables Between me and you
LIZZIE Got two more days in Taunton Until my judgement day One more day in Taunton Then I'll fly away
They take me to the courthouse The verdict's coming in It only took an hour For those white-haired gentlemen To put this all behind me Oh, today's the day When the old man says
VOICEOVER "Not guilty!"
LIZZIE Watch me fly away
EMMA Maybe someday
LIZZIE I'll walk in the open
EMMA Maybe someday
LIZZIE We'll all forget
EMMA Maybe someday
LIZZIE They won't whisper point and stare but my secret's safe now
EMMA Yes your secret's safe
EMMA & LIZZIE Our secret's safe now Maybe someday We'll tell the world Maybe someday We'll make them understand
ALICE Maybe someday You'll come back to me
EMMA But your secret's safe now
ALICE & BRIDGET Her secret's safe now
EMMA Our secret's safe
BRIDGET Our secret's safe
ALICE Our secret's safe
ALICE, BRIDGET, EMMA Now
Other Songs: Lizzie Borden Musical Songs Lyrics
Lizzie Borden the Musical Lyrics
Forty Whacks (Prologue) The House of Borden This is Not Love I Gotta Get Out of Here If You Knew The Soul of the White Bird Maybe Someday Sweet Little Sister Shattercane and Velvetgrass Will You Stay Why Are All These Heads Off Mercury Rising Somebody Will Do Something Forty Whacks (reprise) The Fall of the House of Borden What the F*ck Now, Lizzie?! Burn the Old Thing Up Questions Questions Will You Lie Watchmen for the Morning Maybe Someday (reprise)/ Thirteen Days in Taunton Into Your Wildest Dreams
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