Pipe Dream - The Tide Pool Lyrics

1955 Broadway
Pipe Dream the Musical - The Tide Pool Lyrics

The song was written by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II.

MAC:
It’s nothin’ at all when the tide is high,
It’s just a bunch o’ waves.

HAZEL:
They whip all around all ’a rocks
An’ chase all ’a fish into caves.

DOC:
But if you get there when the tide is low
And the pool is clear and clean,
You can see to the bottom—

HAZEL:
The damndest collection
O’ creeps you ever seen!

DOC:
Hungry flowers that live on fish,
Scooping in whatever comes,
Crabs that grab another crab
And chew his legs

SUZY: (spoken)
The dirty bums!

HAZEL:
Starfish, havin’ himself a lunch,
Eats a mussel off a shell.

MAC:
Shrimps ’n’ limpets ’n’ snails ’n’ eels,
What a smelly tale they tell
Fightin’ each other ’n’ eatin’ each
Other ’n’ lousin’ up the sea!

HAZEL:
Stupid sons o’ fishes,
If you’re askin’ me!

DOC:
Out on the top of the water
Everything seems all right.
There’s a sun on the bay at daytime
And a moon on the bay at night.

MAC:
A breeze blows in from off a the reef
An’ you hear the whistlin’ buoy

HAZEL:
While Doc an’ me are chewin’ the fat
An’ talkin’ a lot o’ hooey.

DOC & MAC:
Out on the top of the water
It’s quieter than a well

DOC, MAC & HAZEL:
While under the water, under the water,
They’re raising holy hell!

DOC:
Get a load of the octopus!
Looking for a crab to eat,
Oozes out of slimy weeds,
Creeping on his floppy feet.

Crab too busy to see him come,
Crab’s a cinch to catch because
He is chewin’ another crab,
Strugglin’ in his greedy claws

DOC, MAC & HAZEL:
Fighting each other
And eating each other
And lousing up the sea,
Fighting and feeding
And mating and breeding
And filling up the sea

Stupid sons o’ fishes!
Stupid sons o’ fishes!
Stupid sons o’ fishes
To live in a tide pool!

Pipe Dream the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
All Kinds of People
The Tide Pool
Everybody's Got a Home but Me
A Lopsided Bus
Bums' Opera
The Man I Used to Be
Sweet Thursday
Suzy Is a Good Thing
All at Once You Love Her
The Happiest House on the Block
The Party That We're Gonna Have Tomorrow Night
Will You Marry Me
Thinkin'
How Long?
The Next Time It Happens