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1988 Broadway
Chess the Musical - Diplomats Lyrics
ALL:
No one can deny that these are difficult times.
No one can deny that these are difficult times.
MOLOKOV:
Mr. DeCaussy!
WALTER:
Mr. Molokov
SOVIETS:
It's the US vs USSR,
Yet we more or less are
AMERICANS:
No one can deny that these are difficult times!
SOVIETS:
To our credit putting all that aside
We have swallowed our pride
AMERICANS:
These are very dangerous and difficult times!
WALTER:
It really doesn't matter who comes out on top.
MOLOKOV:
Who gets the chop.
AMERICANS:
No ones way of life is threatened
By a flop
ALL:
But we're gonna smash their bastard
Make him wanna change his name
Take him to the cleaners and devastate him
Wipe him out, humiliate him
We don't want the whole world saying
"They can't even win a game!"
AMERICANS:
We have never reckoned on coming second.
SOVIETS:
There's no use in
Losin'
AMERICANS:
It's the red flag up against stars and stripes,
but we're peace loving types.
SOVIETS:
No one can deny that these are difficult times!
WALTER:
It's a sweet hail-fellow-well-met affair
For both eagle and bear
AMERICANS:
These are very dangerous and difficult times!
MOLOKOV:
To those that say that this is not a friendly clash
Don't be so rash
I assure you comrades that is
Balderdash
AMERICANS:
What a load of whinging peasants,
Thinking they can win, they can't.
What an exhibition of self-delusion,
This one's a forgone conclusion.
But enough of all this beating,
Round the bushes of detente.
SOVIETS:
We intend to collar the Yankee dollar.
AMERICANS:
We shall trash them, thrash them!
MOLOKOV:
How good to feel that as this great begins
It underpins
Our quest for peace that sponsors common interest
Of east and west.
AMERICANS:
As long as our man wins!
SOVIETS:
As long as our man
ALL:
Wins!
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SYNOPSIS
The Story of Chess
Merano
Commie Newspapers
Press Conference
Anatoly & Molokov
Where I Want to Be
Diplomats
The Arbiter
Hymn to Chess
Merchandisers
The Arbiter (Reprise)
Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility)
Florence and Molokov
1956 – Budapest is Rising
Nobody's Side
Mountain Duet
Florence Quits
Pity the Child
Embassy Lament
Heaven Help My Heart
Anatoly and the Press
Anthem
One Night in Bangkok
One More Opponent
You and I
The Soviet Machine
The Interview
Someone Else's Story
The Deal
I Know Him So Well
Talking Chess
Endgame
You and I (Reprise)
Anthem (Reprise)
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