1. |
Celebrate
03:45
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Bink I’ve got goosebumps, fingers trembling
And I just can’t sleep though I’ve tried slumbering.
I guess I’m restless haunted by my curiousness
Can’t wait, can’t fight it, 3 more days and I’m too excited.
Timlin Knock me down my skin is tingling
And I feel so high my head is jingling
Bink and Hold tight it’s coming I hear that it’s really something
Timlin Can’t wait, can’t fight it, pinching myself cos I’m so excited
Elves 3 days more.
Hettie Kiss me boys it’s time to celebrate,
We’re a thousand elf years old in three days time now let’s commemorate.
Keep still, I’m coming, pucker up you sexy young thing.
My lips, these hips can be yours for the day if you don’t run away… Oh!
Elves Celebrate, we’re gonna celebrate, we’re gonna celebrate in 3 days.
3 days more.
Jarrow Three days left and you’re delirious.
You’d better calm yourselves right down and go inside cos this is serious.
Come on, get working, I don’t want to see you shirking
Make haste, don’t waste this time that you’ve got cos it won’t come again, no.
Elves 3 days more.
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2. |
Three Days More
02:57
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I’ve never liked the life of looking after others,
I’m meant for better things, let’s leave that to their mothers.
It makes me sick to bow and scrape and follow orders
But I’ve laid my hands on a cure.
I’ve found a secret that’s been hidden now for ages,
An ancient prophecy descended from the sages
And it’s got wisdom darkly written in its pages
Saying the king will be taking a fall
In just three days more.
That’s when the prophecy said the royal elves would be dead
In just three days more.
Here’s how it happens I can tell you’re gonna like this
If by millennium an elf of equal highness
Gets married to our lovely sweet and noble Princess
Royal blood will be spilt on the floor
So I’ve a notion that a potion could be brewing
A magic drink to get the king’s brain functions stewing
So he won’t know the wicked things I’ve got him doing
And he won’t know what I’m doing it for until
Three days more while the earth keeps spinning
Three short days and then I’ll be winning
You can’t keep me down because my time is coming round in just three days more.
In just three days more,
That’s when the prophecy said the royal elves would be dead
In just three days more.
That’s when the prophecy said the royal elves would be dead
In just three… days… more.
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3. |
Scrub-A-Dub
01:50
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4. |
Think Bink
03:01
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Jarrow Think Bink!
And You can’t keep rocking the boat
Timlin You’d better think Bink
Or else you won’t stay afloat
You’ve gotta think Bink
You’ll send us all to our graves
You’d better think Bink
We’re heading straight for the waves
So if you don’t want to end up in the drink
you’d better take some time to think.
Jarrow Why do you get these crazy thoughts in your head.
Do you hear voices? Should we put you to bed?
Could there be gremlins running round in your brain
Skipping and a-jumping till it drives you all insane
So help me,
Can I get through to you tell me?
Now aint the time for you to kick up a stink
So come on settle down and think.
Timlin The way I see it Bink it’s time to conform
Stop being different and fit into the norm
You can’t keep wishing on the glimpse of a star
You need to love yourself the elf that you are
So help me
Can I get through to you, tell me?
Now aint the time for you to kick up a stink
So come on settle down and think.
Timlin and Jarrow Oh you’ve got ambition
We know you’re on a mission
But sometimes expectations don’t pay
So someone’s got to stop you
Before you get too carried away.
Hear me say!
Timlin The way I see it Bink it’s time to conform
Stop being different and fit into the norm
You’re meant for cleaning pots and scrubbing out pails
You’re just a low down working elf with dirty, dirty nails
So help me
These are the facts for you baby
But you can learn to love yourself
Jarrow Learn to love the elf that you are
Timlin Learn to love yourself
Jarrow Learn to love the elf that you are
Timlin Learn to love yourself
Jarrow Learn to love the elf
Timlin and Jarrow that you are
that you are, that you are, that you are you’d better
Jarrow Think Bink
And You can’t keep rocking the boat
Tim You’d better think Bink
or else you wont stay afloat
You’d better think Bink
Or we’ll be paying your bail
You’ve gotta think Bink
Because they’ll throw you in jail
So if you don’t want to end up in the clink
You’ve got to flush your dreaming ways down the sink
Cos if you don’t want to end up in the drink
You’ve got to settle down and think.
Think Bink!
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5. |
Dirty Nails
04:17
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Bink Dirty nails
Like my life slightly sullied with grime
Only good for the cellars and serving time
Cleaning pots and pans.
Dirty nails
Calloused fingers grown ugly and old
Worker’s hands that must do what they’re told to do
Is that all I am?
How come everything I do begins with an order?
And no sooner have I got it done than I’m called for
While I swear I’ll try to keep pretending
It’s hard to see this torture ending completely
Someone release me from dirty nails.
Verity Broken dreams
Hope that’s never as near as it seems
Distant starlight reflected in reservoirs
Is that all they are?
Bink Broken dreams
Verity Tricked by endless insidious schemes
Bink and Verity Just a pawn in a game played by noble hands
Is that all we are?
Lately, when I go to bed at night I start dreaming
But I wake before the break of dawn and I’m screaming
Cos I’m hopeless and helpless and trapped in this madness completely
Won’t someone release me.
Till equality reigns I’ll go on
Till I’ve fought for my freedom and won
I will argue it tirelessly why can’t we all get along.
Bink Why can’t we all get along.
Verity Why can’t we all get along.
Verity calls to Bink. Bink climbs towards her.
Verity Dirty nails
Bink Could it be you think like I’m thinking?
Verity Dirty nails
Bink I believe our minds might be linking.
I have searched for you blindly, and now here you find me so sweetly,
Verity It’s like you complete me.
Dirty nails.
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6. |
A Little Bit of Magic
03:33
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Hettie Scribble down your wishes and they may come true.
Some people say their wishes out loud but don’t have much luck in the end
Hettie puts the pen and paper back in Verity’s hands.
If you want your wish to work, then it may drive you berserk but a pen and piece of paper are your
friend.
Some folk may wish on a clover’s green leaves or pluck out an eyelash and blow
They’ll pray to the gods and cross fingers and toes it’s sad but it seems they don’t know.
There’s a little bit of magic found in everything we see,
From riverbank to lovely willow tree.
Yes a little bit of magic found in everything we do
And if you write your wishes down they may come true.
Hettie takes the pen and paper and gives them back to Verity. She leads Verity around the
room as she sings, convincing her of the value of her words.
Write what you like, you’ve a wish to make tonight but for goodness sake be careful what you
Choose
Pick a phrase that’s exact, take great care and study tact you’ll need craftsmanship with every word
you use.
Some people wish off the top of their heads without really thinking it through
Don’t shoot from the lip you’ll end up in a fix now tell me what wish will you do?
Verity I wish my future held in store that I should sleep and wake no more
I hope to sleep both deep and long until at last you get…ah
Hettie There’s a little bit of magic found in everything we do
And if you write your wishes down they may…if you wish extra hard…
come…but only if you’re good…true.
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7. |
Banish Him
02:51
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Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, Murkor.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Send him away!
Murkor Bink you’ve been a very bad boy
Bink don’t even try to be coy
You can’t plead your innocence, just look at the evidence
Bink you’ve been a very bad boy
Bink you have committed a sin,
Look at all the trouble you’re in
Your crimes have caught up with you, now what’ll we do with you?
Bink you have committed a sin.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, Murkor.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Send him away!
Murkor Wait while I examine the law
There’s quite a lot of choice to explore
Hang draw and quarter him, jail or slaughter him
Wait while I examine the law.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, Murkor.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Send him away!
Murkor They say every punishment should fit with the crime
Which makes it legitimate to send you down big time.
Now don’t go complaining don’t kick up a stink
I think I’m gonna banish you Bink!
Yeah
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, Murkor.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Murkor What am I going to do with him?
Guards Send him away!
Murkor I think I’m gonna send him away
Murkor I think I’m gonna send him away
and Guards I think I’d better send him away
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8. |
Sleep
04:01
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Sleep, I wonder if you can hear
Now everything I hold dear
Is floating away like smoke.
Sleep, the moment you closed her eyes
You took away half my life
Now how do I wake her up?
How do I wake her?
What does she want?
What does she need?
To dissolve this enchantment
I’d do anything.
Tell me what does she want
What should I get
Though I’ve loved her for ages
You’ve seen nothing yet.
But if I can’t wake her up
Then lay me down to rest
And let me dream forever more
Cos the place I love the best
Is lying in her arms
And maybe we could sleep together
Sleep, I’m wondering can you hear me?
I’m praying to god you’ll help me
Help me to bring her back.
You know how I love her
Sleep, I’m down on my knees and pleading
You’re breaking my heart I’m bleeding
Why don’t you give her back?
Tell me how do I wake her
What does she want?
What does she need?
If it’s blood that you’re after
Stand aside and watch me bleed.
Tell me what does she want
What do I have to get
Though I’ve loved her for ages
You’ve seen nothing yet.
How do I wake her, Sleep?
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9. |
The Farta From Sparta
02:41
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There was a young fellow from Sparta.
A really magnificent farter.
On the strength of one bean
He'd fart "God Save the Queen,"
And Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
He was great in the Christmas Cantata,
He could double-stop fart the Toccata,
He'd boom from his arse
Bach's old B-Minor Mass,
And in counterpoint, La Traviata
Sprites He’s the Farta from Sparta.
The Farta from Sparta.
All hail the greatest ruler that the Sprites have ever had.
King Poop One day he was dared to perform
The William Tell Overture Storm,
But that can’t dishearten
Our spirited Spartan,
His fart was in wonderful form!
It went off in capital style,
And he farted it through with a smile,
Then, feeling quite jolly,
He tried the finale,
With thunderous farts all the while.
Sprites He’s the Farta from Sparta.
The Farta from Sparta.
All hail the greatest ruler that the Sprites have ever had.
And that’s why he means more than life to us Sprites
He bring us to life yes he turns on our lights
We love him to death and we’ve made him our martyr
For he’s a magnificle farta, yes he’s a magnificle farter, for he’s the magnificle, truly splendiferous, whizpopping Farta from Sparta
King Poop But one day his farts they did droop
He got old and he walked with a stoop
And with bum thrown aloft
He suddenly coughed
And fell down in a shower of poop.
His bottom was blown back to Sparta,
Where they buried the rest of our farter,
With a gravestone of turds
Inscribed with the words:
"To the Fine Art of Farting, A Martyr."
Sprites He’s the Farta from Sparta.
The Farta from Sparta.
All hail the greatest ruler that the Sprites have ever had.
He’s the Farta from Sparta.
The Farta from Sparta.
He’s quite the greatest ruler that the Sprites have ever had.
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10. |
Hunting A Smell
03:06
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I’m hunting a smell
Caught in a scent spell
Not really knowing
Which way I’m going.
Look there it goes
Past my nose
Something fragrant and tantalising
Quick as a sniff
There’s a whiff that I can sense but then it’s gone
I’m hunting a smell
Where though I can’t tell
Where can the source be?
Hope it’s nearby me
Look there it goes
Past my nose
Something fragrant and tantalising
Quick as a sniff
There’s a whiff of something in the distance
I can find it with persistence
Fairy fresh perfume
Where is that smell from?
Is it beside me?
Maybe we’ll soon see.
It’s like you’re
Capturing rainbows,
Chasing down darkness
Listening for silence
When hunting a smell
Look there it goes
Past my nose
Something fragrant and tantalising
Quick as a sniff
There’s a whiff that I can sense but then it’s gone
So I’m hunting a smell.
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11. |
I've Tried Everything
02:43
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I’ve tried everything, but nothing seems to wake her up.
It’s millennium day and we’re down to the wire
My plans are in ruins and soon they’ll expire
There’s 4 hours left till the prophecy’s gone
I need someone to come and try and help me along.
They offered her artifacts, antiques and jewels
Clothing and foodstuffs croissants and cagoules
They promised her riches, a cat from Siam
But nothing seemed to work and so I told them to scram.
I’ve tried everything, but nothing seems to wake her up.
We’ve had noble elves down from Kathmandu,
Give it their best shot but that wouldn’t do
They’ve rode in from places all over the land
But now I need somebody else to lend me a hand.
I need a quick hero to walk through that door
I’m praying to god look I’m down on the floor
Just send me a nobleman smart in the head
So I can be the ruler when the rulers are dead!
I’ve tried everything, but nothing seems to wake her up.
Oh I tear out my hair
Oh I’m caught in despair
Oh It’s getting too late
I’ve always been a patient man but now I can’t wait.
They offered her artifacts, antiques and jewels
Clothing and foodstuffs croissants and cagoules
They promised her riches, a cat from Siam
But nothing seemed to work it’s like she don’t give a damn.
I’ve tried everything, but nothing seems to wake her up.
And I’d give anything if someone came to wake her up
It must happen soon or I’ll never be king so someone needs to wake her up.
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12. |
Banish Him II
02:50
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What am I going to do with him?
Bink Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Bink Banish him, banish him, Elgin.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Bink Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Bink Send him away!
Elgin Bink he’s been a very bad boy
See, he’s even tried to be coy
He can’t plead his innocence, just look at the evidence
Bink he’s been a very bad boy
Bink he has committed a sin,
Look at all the trouble he’s in
His crimes have caught up with him, now what’ll we do with him?
Bink he has committed a sin.
Elgin So what am I going to do with him?
Chorus Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Banish him, banish him, Elgin.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Send him away!
Elgin They say every punishment should fit with the crime
Which makes it legitimate to send him down big time.
Now don’t go complaining don’t kick up a stink
I think I’m gonna banish him Bink!
Everybody!
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Banish him, banish him, Elgin.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Send him away!
Elgin What am I going to do with him?
Chorus Banish him, banish him, banish him.
Elgin I think I’m gonna send him away
Elgin I think I’m gonna send him away
and Chorus I think I’d better send him away
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13. |
Celebrate Reprise
03:11
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Chorus I’ve got goosebumps, fingers trembling
And I just can’t sleep though I’ve tried slumbering.
Hold tight it’s coming I hear that it’s really something
Can’t wait, can’t fight it, pinching myself cos I’m too excited
Elves Celebrate, we’re gonna celebrate, we’re gonna celebrate in 3 days.
3 days more.
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Steven Lee London, UK
Steven Lee spent much of his childhood in a tree house and was educated by squirrels - or at least that is what he would
have us believe.
What we know for sure is that he is a popular children's playwright, singer- songwriter and occasionally writes the odd book or two.
You can find out about his books, songs and some of his stage musicals at www.ptc.org.uk
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