2012 New York City Center Encores! Merrily We Roll Along the Musical - Bobby and Jackie and Jack Lyrics
Charley: Nineteen sixty…
Beth: It’s nineteen sixty…
Frank: And gosh, what a swell year it’s been!
All three: So many blessings, Such wonders it has brought, You hardly know where to begin: There’s xerox And lasers, The twist and the “pill,” A city in brazil…
Beth: …that no one wants to fill…
All three: Khrushchev stopped screaming And librium came in.
Charley: And nixon didn’t win.
All three: Goodbye then to ike and the brass, To years that were cozy but crass.
Frank: It’s true ike was icky,
Charley: But better him than dicky —
All: Now meet the first first family with class en masse.
Charley: There’s bobby —
Beth: And jackie —
Frank: And jack —
All three: And myriads more in the back: There’s ethel and teddy and pat alone,
Charley: Plus eunice
Beth: And peter
Frank: And jean
Pianist: And joan
Charley: And what’s-his-name — ?
Beth: Stephen.
Frank: And hold the phone — The one in the army —
Beth, charley: One in the army?
Frank: Captain… major…
Charley: Sargent!
Frank: That’s it!
All three: So many cards in the pack. You want to know how to keep track? Well, one is good-looking And young and rich While one is good-looking And young and rich, The rest are good-looking And young and rich — There isn’t a lot that they lack, Not bobby and jackie and jack And ethel and ted and eunice And pat and joan And steve and peter And jean and sarge — There’s probably dozens of others at large, God knows — And joe and rose.
All three: We’re bringing back style to the white house.
Beth: I’m painting it beige for a start.
All three: We’re making it into a cultural lighthouse
Charley: For glamour
Beth: And beauty
Frank: And art.
Beth: Evenings of the budapest playing vivaldi And munch doing bits of ravel. I’ll get leontyne price to sing her Medley from “meistersinger” And margot fonteyn to dance “giselle.”
Charley: (spoken) together?
Beth: Won’t it be perfectly swell?
Frank: We’ll have bernstein play next on The bechstein piano —
Charley: And auden read poems and stuff.
Beth: And galina — — vishnevskya,
Frank, charley: Gesundheit!
Beth: The russian soprano — Just pronouncing her name Is refreshing enough!
All three: We’re bringing back style to the white house, With casual culture the rule.
Frank: (spoken) o.K., bobby. I’ll make you attorney general. Just get off my back.
Charley: With bobby
Beth: And jackie
Frank: And jack,
All three: The white house is under attack.
Frank: Eight years is the limit but eight will do,
Charley: By then there’ll be bobby —
Pianist: — and teddy, too —
Beth: Or peter or stephen —
Frank, charley, pianist: (to beth) Or even you —
Beth: Ooh! — and then there’s the colonel —
Frank, charley: Colonel?
Beth: Major?
Frank, charley: Major?
Beth: You know!
Frank: Sargent.
Beth: Yes…
All three: Dozens to take up the slack If anything goes out of whack.
Frank: And some day elections will be unknown
Beth: ’cause each of our kids will ascend the throne
Charley: And their kids have more kids with kids of their own
Frank: — it’s sort of a family knack —
All three: Till most of the nation’s Made up of relations Of bobby and jackie and jack And ethel and ted and eunice And pat and joan And steve and peter and jean and sarge And joe and rose and rows and rows And rows and rows and rows and rows — The decade is starting anew, And maybe the country is, too.
Other Songs: Merrily We Roll Along the Musical Lyrics song Bobby and Jackie and Jack lyrics Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS Merrily We Roll Along That Frank First Transition Old Friends (Part I) Like It Was Franklin Shepard Inc Second Transition Old Friends (Part II) Growing Up Third Transition Not a Day Goes By 1 Now You Know Gussie's Opening Number It's A Hit Fourth Transition The Blob (Part I) Growing Up (Part II) Good Thing Going The Blob (Part II) Fifth Transition Bobby and Jackie and Jack Not A Day Goes By Sixth Transition Opening Doors Seventh Transition Our Time
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