No. 27 - Finale Act II
Knickerbocker: | Lord Dolphin marry Violet, I'm astounded! |
Chorus: | He's astounded! |
Rufus: | We all are utterly confounded; |
Chorus: | -ly confounded! |
Miss Hurricane: | Our indignation is unbounded, |
All: | Is unbounded! |
Knickerbocker: | Violet shall marry the Great Tycoon. |
Violet: | Yes, I will marry the Great Tycoon. |
Rufus: | Dolph thought it better not to tarry, |
All: | Not to tarry, |
Knickerbocker: | She never shall wed Alvin Barry, |
All: | Alvin Barry, |
Teddy: | The Tycoon, from the high noon, shall she marry, |
All: | Shall she marry. |
Knickerbocker: | Violet shall marry the Great Tycoon. |
Chorus: | Violet shall marry the Great Tycoon. |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll be the Little Tycoon! |
All: | Little Tycoon! |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll be the Little Tycoon! |
All: | Little Tycoon! |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll live up in the high moon, |
All: | In the high moon. |
Violet: | Oh yes, I'll marry the Great Tycoon. |
Chorus: | Oh yes, she'll marry the Great Tycoon. |
Knickerbocker: | Alvin Barry! Oh, do carry, carry me out. I am quite shocked, I am quite shocked, Quite knocked about. |
Violet: | Dear, oh dear Pop, don't, oh don't drop. |
Alvin: | Do ah! do stay; Diplomasee, you will agree, has won the day. |
Knickerbocker: | 'Tis marvelous, oh, it is tremendous; |
Chorus: | 'Tis tremendous! |
Rufus: | Unprecedentedly stupendous, |
Chorus: | -ly stupendous! |
Knickerbocker: | I've had enough, from more defend us, |
Chorus: | More defend us! |
Alvin: | Enough of such rare diplomasee. |
Chorus: | Enough of such rare diplomasee. |
Knickerbocker: | Then, take, oh, take her, Alvin Barry; |
Chorus: | Alvin Barry. |
Knickerbocker: | No one but you shall Violet marry. |
Chorus: | Violet marry. |
Alvin: | No one but me shall Violet marry. |
Chorus: | Violet marry. |
Knickerbocker: | Ha! Ha! The Little Tycoon she'll be. |
Chorus: | Ha! Ha! The Little Tycoon she'll be. Love reigns, love, ah! yes love reigns. Fate, 'tis, 'tis Fate so ordains. Love wins; ah, yes, 'tis no dream; For love reigns ever supreme. Sweet moments, with joy entranced, Fly fast, by rapture enhanced; Passed thus with thee 'tis no dream; For love reigns ever supreme. |
Knickerbocker: | Now when I was a boy, Woman, without alloy, Was just like my sweet daughter; Submissive as I've taught her. To please me now she'll marry My chosen Alvin Barry; A man without alloy I've chosen from a boy. |
Chorus: | 'Tis all serene like a calm sea-scene, With a sailor's ship ahoy, ahoy, ahoy, ahoy. 'Tis all serene like a canned sardine That was canned for the siege of Troy. Oh, 'twas when he was a boy. |
Alvin & Rufus: | Yes, yes, it was from a boy, Alacazan Mazourka, Far back in the siege of Troy; Alacazan Mazourka! Alvin Barry without alloy, Alacazan Mazourka, Was picked out for maiden coy, As far back as the siege of Troy! Was picked out for maiden coy, Yes! Yes! |
Violet: | Love comes like a summer sigh, |
Chorus: | Softly o'er you stealing, |
Violet: | Love comes, and you wonder why |
Chorus: | To its shrine you're kneeling. |
Violet: | Love comes and the days go by; |
Chorus: | While your fate love's sealing. Love some day must come to all, Yes, in love all must fall, Love some day must come to all, Come to all. |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll be the Little Tycoon, |
All: | Little Tycoon, |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll be the Little Tycoon, |
All: | Little Tycoon! |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll live up in the high moon; |
All: | In the high moon. |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll marry the Great Tycoon! |
All: | Yes, yes, yes, yes. |
Violet: | Oh, yes, I'll marry the Great Tycoon! |
All: | Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then she will be the Little Tycoon, Yes, yes, yes, yes, the Little Tycoon. |
American Musical Theatre | The Little Tycoon
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