2006 Off-Broadway Gutenberg! the Musical - Festival! Lyrics
The song is written by Scott Brown and Anthony King.
DOUG: (spoken) Scene four The next morning Today is the day of the German celebration Known as “Festival”
BUD: (spoken) Dawn is beginning to break over the town of Schlimmer Beef Fat Trimmer steps forward Through the stinky morning mist
DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer) The sun, it rises in the East I smell bread rising with the yeast For today is no ordinary day It’s the day... of Festival
BUD: (as Daughter) Today I dance
DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer) This sun, it rises in the East
BUD: (as Daughter) At Festival) In knee-rosen pants
DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer) I smell bread rising with the yeast
BUD: (as Daughter) Yeah, that’s the festival
BOTH: (as Beef Fat Trimmer & Daughter) For today is no ordinary day It’s the day of Festival
BUD: (spoken) We see Gutenberg pulling a wagon With the printing press inside It is covered with a sheet He is going to the town square He still does not know the printing press has been destroyed
DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg) They’ll go nuts And lift me in their arms When I show ‘em my press I’m takin’ to festival
BUD: (as Helvetica) Oh Gutenberg, I’m sorry
DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg) I’m so psyched!
BUD: (as Helvetica) Forgive me!
DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg) I’ll be even more well liked!
BUD: (as Helvetica) And the town will have his head Once they see the printing press is dead!
(as Daughter) Today I dance
DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer) The sun, it rises in the east
BUD: (as Helvetica) (Oh Gutenberg)
BUD: (as Daughter) At the Festival
DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg) Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg
BUD: (as Helvetica) Will you ever for-
BUD: (as Daughter) In knee-rosen pants
DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer) The sun is rising
BUD: (as Helvetica) (I smashed your press)
BUD: (as Daughter) That’s the best
DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg) Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg
BUD: (as Helvetica) Now I’m a mess
BOTH: (as All) For today is no ordinary day It’s the day...
BUD: (as Daughter) The blessed day
BOTH: (as All) ...of Festival
BOTH (as Drunk 1 & Drunk 2): (spoken) It’s the festival!
DOUG (as Drunk 1): (spoken) I’m still drunk!
BUD (as Drunk 2): (spoken) I’m always drunk!
BOTH: (as Drunk 1 & Drunk 2) Festival It’s the best of all It’s the crest of all our desires Festival Take the rest of all of the festivals To the fires
DOUG: (as Drunk 1) There is so much food and drink
BUD: (as Drunk 2) There’s just enough to make you faint
DOUG: (as Drunk 1) I wish it’d all be tickled pink
BOTH: (as Drunk 1 & Drunk 2) I’m tellin’ y’all, let’s dance!
DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken) It’s Monk!
BUD: (as Monk) Don’t forget, I met the devil In a haunted German wood I’m a terrible monk and I’ve got a plan And it’s happenin’ like it should! Now the girl’s in trouble And his press is rubble And his Guten-bubble’s gonna burst! Ha!
I’ll just wait and see Wine man Mr. G As they roast him like a bratwurst Ha!
DOUG: (as Young Monk) Why does he have to be so bad?!
BUD: (as Flower Girl) I’ve got daffodils And some roses too But you can’t have one
(spoken) BECAUSE YOU’RE A JEW!!!
DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg) Oh flower girl! Why must you have this ridiculous hatred of the Jews? It’s irrational and it’s wrong It hurts me to see my fellow townspeople Acting this way Just think of where all this hatred could lead Before you know it We could be in the middle Of a Second World War And that’s why I have something under this sheet That could unite us all
BUD: (spoken) Everyone gasps
DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken) Oh no!
BUD (as Monk): (spoken) Well, well, well What have we here?
DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken) It was a... printing press
BUD (as Monk): (spoken) A printing press?! What’s that for?
DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken) It was going to... change the world
BUD (as Monk): (spoken) Get him!
DOUG: (spoken) The townspeople converge And attack Gutenberg They are filled with irrational mob mentality And soon collect wood Light a fire And burn Gutenberg alive
Lights shift
Review: Gutenberg! the Musical Lyrics
Gutenberg! the Musical Lyrics
PLOT Prologue/Schlimmer I Can't Read Haunted German Wood The Press Song I Can't Read (Reprise) Biscuits What's The Word? Stop The Press Tomorrow Is Tonight Second Prologue Words, Words, Words Monk With Me Might As Well (Go To Hell) Festival! Finale
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